Ep. 99 features Greg Dean & Gianni Settino from HotStreak, which is AI-powered sports gaming technology.

Hear them discuss:

• Their backgrounds at other startups, including Gianni’s time as the first engineer at Draft before its acquisition by Paddy Power Betfair
• The origins of HotStreak as an NFT-based collectibles game that they pivoted into the current in-play DFS product
• The challenges of building scalable in-play microbetting technology, and why “risk management became the dominant problem”
• The opportunities they see in B2B despite the fact they’ll “probably stay direct to consumer”
• Automating risk management, any why “taking humans out of risk management is the end goal”
• Why they “remain long-term bullish” on web3 technologies despite their early pivot away from NFTs
• How poor risk management and correlated pricing has contributed to challenges for other DFS operators

Learn more 👇

➡️ HotStreak website

➡️ Greg Dean on Linkedin

➡️ Gianni Settino on Linkedin

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