Ep. 40 - Nik Bonaddio, BigBrain Games The Betting Startups Podcast

Ep. 40 is guest hosted by Lloyd Danzig from Sharp Alpha Advisors, who introduces you to Nik Bonaddio, founder and CEO of BigBrain.
Hear Nik discuss:
Appearing as a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, winning $100,000, and quitting his job the next day to pursue his first startup
Launching Numberfire as Moneyball for fantasy sports, and scaling it to $2m in revenue before exiting to Fanduel in 2015
His experience working as Fanduel’s Chief Product Officer, and why after 4+ years he “wanted to kind of get back to the craziness of startups”
Why it was “kind of obvious” to him that the DFS model could be applied to the brain games category, which was the catalyst for BigBrain
His strategy to build a cap table with both betting industry investors and industry-agnostic VC firms including First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Ludlow, and Golden Ventures
His long-term plan to buy the Pittsburgh Pirates, and why his first move as owner will be to reduce ticket and concession prices
 
Learn more 👇
 
Episode Guest:
➡️  BigBrain in the app store
➡️  BigBrain website
➡️  Nik Bonaddio on Linkedin
 
Episode Host:
➡️  Sharp Alpha Advisors website
➡️  Lloyd Danzig on Linkedin