Sports Betting: From $0 to $160 Million Exit with Alex Monahan
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Alex Monahan graduated from Stanford University and founded OddsJam, the Bloomberg Terminal of sports betting. OddsJam was self-funded & acquired by Gambling.com, ticker GDC, for 160 Million Dollars in December.
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1. Follow your obsession and turn your passion into a thriving company by immersing in the industry and identifying key inefficiencies.
2. Bootstrap for control, stay focused, and make decisions that served the product and its users.
3. Content builds community. Creating YouTube videos about sports betting strategy grew an organic audience and fueled business growth.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation? JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, |
| 0:07.3 | brought to you by High Level, the all-in-one sales marketing platform. |
| 0:10.7 | Today we'll be breaking down sports betting from zero to 160 million exits with Alex Monaghan, |
| 0:16.2 | founder of Odds Jam. |
| 0:18.1 | To drop these value bombs, I are brought to Alexander Monaghan and the Eofire Studios. |
| 0:21.8 | Alex graduated from Stanford University and founded Oz Jam, the Bloomberg terminal |
| 0:26.4 | of sports betting. |
| 0:27.5 | Oz Jam was self-funded and acquired by gambling.com, ticker GDC for $160 million in December. |
| 0:32.8 | And today, our nation, we'll talk about the sports betting industry. |
| 0:35.6 | We'll talk about scaling to 20 million. |
| 0:37.7 | We'll talk about the opportunities for entrepreneurs within this industry and oh so much more. And a big |
| 0:42.3 | thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Alex and our sponsors. Franocity has helped |
| 0:47.9 | hundreds of people leave unfulfilling jobs, invest in recession resilient businesses, and |
| 0:52.6 | create legacy income for their families through |
| 0:54.9 | franchising. Get started today with Franocity's franchise funding guide, packed with real world |
| 1:00.6 | strategies to launch your business without draining your savings. Visit franosity.com. That's |
| 1:06.4 | F-R-A-N-O-C-I-T-Y dot com. |
| 1:11.9 | Alex, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful |
| 1:17.8 | that most people disagree with. |
| 1:20.4 | What is up, Fire Nation? |
| 1:22.2 | I hope you guys are excited for the NBA finals tonight, and I'm not the only one. |
| 1:30.4 | But I think something I believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with is probably just to focus on something |
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