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Scott Hansbury

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
134 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

And for the fact that, you know, we keep things safe and secure for you because we make sure that the money's escrow, the money goes to the casino, you know, all those kind of things to make sure that there's contracts in place with the players to make sure that everything goes smoothly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

So in the six months that we launched, we've had $2.8 million in stakes put up on the site.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

So that's kind of the supply side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

And then we've had 1.4 million pledges against those stakes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

So that's kind of the demand side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

What's that mean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

I don't know what that means.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

So the stakes are, these are players that says, here's my, here's my offer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

I'm going to, I am in a $10,000 tournament and I'm going to sell, you know, to the public 20% of that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

No, it's close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

So no, you've had, you've had 2.8 million worth of poker players saying, I want to sell part of my action.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

I didn't know there were that many poker players.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

That much action added up to that, that amount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

And then you got guys like me or like you that are sitting home going, Oh, I want a piece of this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

I want to see, I want to, I want to buy some equity in that event.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

Let me just tell you real quick.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

There's actually 100 million poker fans worldwide, 60 million of which is in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

And of all those, 1% of that is actual players.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

How do you measure that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How to Bet On Poker Players and Make Money with Scott Hansbury of YouStake EP 206

I mean...