Kristen Thompson,

and Somnia founder, Herman Nerula, joins us now.

Welcome to the show, guys.

Thanks for having us.

Great to be here.

Awesome. Now, Tristan, the last time we talked, we were talking about Tracy AI.

Now we're talking about a collaboration with Somnia that's really focused on the fan experience. Set the stage for us here. I mean, what are some of the challenges that you've experienced when interacting with your fans? What's some of the feedback you've received from your fans? Yeah, I know, I think, first of all, thanks for having us on. I mean, we're not doing the Zoom no more, so we're in person. Here we are in person. Exactly.

The Italian is in here, you know, we're in Korea. But no, for us, for me as an athlete, what are his experience is that, you know, we always preach and talk about how the fans are what makes the sport, right? They're our most important people. We always do that, but we never really put our money where our mouth is or even just elevates them to a place where their voice actually matters.

And I think for us, when me and Herman, really put our money where our mouth is, or even just elevate them to a place where their voice actually matters.

And I think for us, me and Herman, when we were sitting down and talking, we just connected on that and we're like,

let's elevate our fans and actually show them how much they actually do mean to the sport and what their potential truly is.

Look, I think this is about more than just gambling, more than just making predictions.

This is about information finance.

And I think the promise that groups of fans and groups of people who are passionate about

any topic can accumulate information more efficiently than markets can.

And I think Tristan is a founder as well is pretty unique.

Here we have someone who's not just a world-class athlete, but actually in my experience,

a world-class founder as well.

He's training in the morning, he's in meetings in the evening.

It's become one of our largest seed rounds that we've done as a venture builder.

And look, bringing together Somnia with a million transactions a second and hopefully enough information on chain, maybe we start to see some like real disruptions in the way players are valued, you know, maybe even in the way that, you know, sports conducts business.

I mean, Tristan, I can't imagine you don't bring the same discipline to your game as you do to this. We've had a lot of conversations. You are in it.

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