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
