“Nik estimates that in places where sports betting was legalized, FanDuel managed to convert about 90 percent of its daily fantasy customers into sports bettors”
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Understood: The Big Bet · E1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
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Projected annual revenue impact of legal sports betting for the NFL
$5 billion per year (original projection $2.3 billion)
“Nik estimates that in places where sports betting was legalized, FanDuel managed to convert about 90 percent of its daily fantasy customers into sports bettors”
“AMR sports of revenue growth of 27% and earnings growth of 106%, which are both really encouraging figures that suggest their growth is due to more than just a fairly narrow fashion trend”
“I'm trying to generate 50% annualized returns… the only way that I can achieve that is by taking concentrated levered bets when I have a high degree of conviction”
“Maybe 20% less work per year. And for a little while, it actually did not impact revenue.”
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