Scott Hansbury

So we've created this marketplace and it was kind of the aha moment for my co-founder that I were, you know, you watch ESPN, you watch the world series of poker on ESPN and they'll get to the final table.

And normally you'll hear the announcer say something like, and that was our aha moment when he said something like this guy was about to win $8 million to win the main event.

And he only had, you know, 10% of himself.

And we're like, what does that mean?

10%.

And then we kind of looked into it.

It's like, okay, he sold the rest to raise money to buy in.

And then the question becomes, well, how come I didn't get a chance?

Why didn't I have access to that?

I want a piece of that.

And you start to look into it and you find out that there's this whole underground culture

of staking that goes on in the poker industry to allow people the financial capital needed to play in these tournaments.

This is FanDuel or DraftKings for poker.

A little bit different, though, because this is basically a, you know, the difference with FanDuel and DraftKings is you're kind of, you know, you're picking a lineup and you're betting on it, right?

But there's no interaction.

There's no, I mean, you don't get to text Peyton Manning in the middle of a game to ask him, you know, what happened on the last series, right?

where what we are is we've got a marketplace where it's a really tight connection between the fan base and the players themselves.

So actually during a tournament, you know, the players are actually, you know, messaging their backers on how things are going and here's a big hand that just happened or here's my stack size at this point.

So you get a much more of a interaction, much more of a sweat as they call it in the poker industry.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.