ETR 5-Year Anniversary Special with CEO Taylor Caby & Adam Levitan: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Episode 738)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan is joined by fellow ETR co-founder Taylor Caby to discuss the founding of ETR, the past five years for the brand, what the future holds, and much more.
In this episode, we discuss:
The past, present, and future of ETR
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Timestamps:
(1:41) - Memories of ETR’s Conception
(4:11) - Initial Expectation of ETR
(7:13) - Favorite ETR Launch Stories
(11:20) - Where “Establish The Run” Found Its Name
(15:25) - Biggest Reason For ETR’s Success
(18:47) - Explaining The Changes To The NFL Product
(21:08) - ETR’s Plan For Season-Long
(25:36) - The Current State of DFS
(31:10) - Why ETR Doesn’t Offer Sports Sides Betting Packages
(37:19) - Should Sportsbooks Be Able To Limit Bettors?
(43:48) - Working at ETR
(51:37) - Listener Questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to the official Establish the run |
| 0:19.5 | dot-com podcast my name is Adam Levitan I am one of the co-finders here at ETR and on July 1st. We celebrated our five year anniversary since the company launched and so we thought it would be cool to take a look back, take a look ahead, reminisce a little. |
| 0:35.0 | For that, I am joined by a young man. |
| 0:38.0 | Most of you likely don't know, but just know that if you enjoy ETR, it was because of a decision that I made. |
| 0:45.0 | If you're angry about something, is a decision that this guy made. |
| 0:49.0 | It is our fellow co-founder, resident suit, stiff, businessman, ETR CEO Taylor Kaby. Taylor has it going today. |
| 0:59.6 | It's going good. |
| 1:00.6 | Thanks for having me and happy five year anniversary of being a hardcore capitalist. |
| 1:04.4 | How does it feel? It's really funny because you know I knew Taylor from poker and now he's like the |
| 1:11.1 | suit at this company which says something about the company that |
| 1:14.7 | Taylor is the biggest suit because he's not really a suit at all I make fun of |
| 1:17.9 | him about it but he's not really that at all it's just we have no one else that |
| 1:21.0 | can even closely resemble a suit. |
| 1:23.8 | So you got to. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, I own one suit. |
| 1:26.3 | So it's not a great suit, but that's the role I'm new to play. |
| 1:30.6 | All right, on today's show, |
| 1:31.6 | we're gonna talk about the origins of of ETR what's going on now |
| 1:34.7 | state of the industry sports betting we have a bunch of good questions from you guys that we're |
| 1:38.8 | going to get to as well. Let's dive right into five years ago, Taylor, what do you remember about the original idea or ideas that we were kind of floating around? |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, I mean, I know you and I had talked like 10 years ago |
| 1:55.4 | when you were, I think, like first signing with Draft Kings |
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