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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Lesley Eccles: Co-Founder of FanDuel and Founder of Relish | #ThePlaybook 173

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Lesley Eccles, co-founder of FanDuel and founder of Relish shares her thoughts on: [4:07] How she was able to infuse her passion into the fantasy sports business, despite not being a fan of sports [6:05] The biggest challenge in building a business from the ground up, and some of the specific legal battles that FanDuel faced [9:01] Why her new venture, Relish, has many similarities to FanDuel, despite being in a completely different industry [12:58] How she’s leveraged her situational knowledge in order to find the right investors for Relish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook I have Leslie Eccles.

0:03.0

She's now the CEO of Hello Relish, which is a relationship training app,

0:08.0

but we're going to find out how she got there because she was the CEO and founder of Fandal, which is the first billion-dollar

0:16.2

sports startup since E-SPN. Join me for all of this and more on The

0:21.0

playbook. This is entrepreneurs the playbook,

0:24.3

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

0:27.2

celebrities, and entrepreneurs

0:29.5

to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them

0:34.2

champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of Sports One

0:40.3

marketing David Melzer.

0:43.6

I love when I have super female entrepreneurs.

0:46.8

This is Leslie Eccles, and she is the founder of Relish.

0:51.3

And before that, talk about a transition was the co-founder of FanDool.

0:55.7

So we're going to talk about two different fantasy sports here, one dating and one actual

1:00.2

fantasy sports.

1:01.8

But when as a Chancellor of Junior Achievement University, it's amazing

1:05.7

because we have 100 million alumni. It's a huge organization for entrepreneurs 15 to 25. More women now. When I started there it was predominantly young men. Now

1:16.2

there's more women than men because of innovators like you that have given

1:20.7

confidence to like my teenage daughters that hey this is an equal field in some respects, I think it's not equal anymore because you have a superior intellect most men like me and the way that you look at things really can change

1:35.9

the world. Let's start with something that's weird. Here you're a woman

1:40.4

entrepreneur from Scotland and you end up co-founding fan duel.

1:45.0

Yeah.

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