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Ep. 141: Building bet slips with a copilot w/ Cal Spears & Jonathan Bales from Gambly

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Recorded on the day of their public launch, Ep. 141 features Cal Spears and Jonathan Bales from Gambly, which is your sports betting copilot.


Hear them discuss:

  • How Cal and Jonathan came together to launch Gambly after their non-competes expired following their last exits
  • The inspiration for Gambly, and the founding use cases for the product
  • Why they think Gambly will add value to both casual and sharp bettors alike
  • How they're thinking about the journey towards finding product-market fit
  • Why they think that Gambly can catalyze a new affiliate model with sportsbooks
  • Developing the underlying technology that powers the product, and how they've abstracted its complexity with an intuitive UX
  • The background on their strategic partnership with Unabated
  • Choosing to preserve equity by self-funding Gambly's development over raising seed capital
  • Why Cal thinks that we "might be in a golden age" for smaller affiliates, despite the recent headwinds for larger affiliate companies
  • Their top pieces of advice to other entrepreneurs building within real-money gaming

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    Catch the video version of this episode here.

     

    Cal was also a former guest on Ep. 80 of The Betting Startups Podcast, where he told the full story of his 20-year journey building, scaling, and exiting several businesses within real-money gaming. Catch that episode if you missed it:

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      Learn more 👇

      ➡️ Gambly website

      ➡️ Cal Spears on Linkedin

      ➡️ Jonathan Bales on Linkedin

       

       

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