Jeremy Bloom
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And these things happen, right?
The tuck rule, the figure skating scandal, the Russian figure skating scandal at the Olympics.
Like, when you're an athlete, you dedicate your whole life, man.
Like, you don't go to prom and homecoming, and you don't do normal things because you think you dream about going to the Olympics, dream about going to the NFL, you dream about being in the Super Bowl, dream about winning an F1 race.
And I just can't believe we still live in a world where human referees and judges are getting it wrong.
And it's changing the course of history for these athletes, these teams, these fans.
And I'm just so happy that we're finally at the point in technology where technology can solve that.
I really believe it can.
For sure.
And the other thing that we've learned since starting this adventure, I'll call it, is even at the big leagues, these major leagues, there's no pipeline for refs.
They don't want to ref anymore.
I mean, think about it this way.
Sports betting was a $400 million business in 2018.
It's now $16 billion.
Holy crap.
$16 billion.
they're getting death threats.
You know, they go home and they don't have a good quality of life because of fans.
There's just too much on the line.
So even the biggest leagues in the world, they will tell you one of their biggest threats right now is they don't have a pipeline for refs.