The Betting Startups Podcast

Ep. 178: The convergence of financial trading and sports betting w/ Trent Hoerr from BullRush


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Ep. 178 features Trent Hoerr from BullRush, which is a gamified platform offering multi-participant competitions using virtual currency with real cash prizes.

 

Hear him discuss:

• His early days as a professional runner turned prop trader during the 2008 financial crisis

• The legal and regulatory path to proving BullRush competitions as games of skill
• Why he believes traders often overlap with sports bettors due to shared analytical skills
• The significance of peer-to-peer competition and restoring the social side of betting
• BullRush’s growth to 150,000 users across 170 countries since launching in 2023
• How he bootstrapped BullRush using profits from his previous startup
• Their current NFL Survivor contest with a $100K prize pool
• Why he believes BullRush can grow to 5M+ users as more bettors get limited by sportsbooks
• The long-term convergence of financial trading and sports betting platforms

 

Catch the video version of this episode here.

 

Learn more 👇

➡️ BullRush website 

➡️ Trent Hoerr on Linkedin

 

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