“I won $100,000 on a show, and I quit my job the very next day and started my company. That company was called Numberfire.”

Understood: The Big Bet · E1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

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won $100,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and used the prize to quit his job and start Numberfire, a sports data analytics company

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