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Betting, porn and women's cricket

Great story from Play the Game:

You have to read this. Really! Offshore betting companies with porn links are targeting women’s cricket❗ A new investigation by Steve Menary and Jack Kerr for Play the Game reveals that gambling… | Stanis Elsborg
You have to read this. Really! Offshore betting companies with porn links are targeting women’s cricket❗ A new investigation by Steve Menary and Jack Kerr for Play the Game reveals that gambling operators linked to pornographic content access live data from women’s cricket 🔎 The investigation also exposes risks of match-fixing, player harassment, and the spread of betting
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Denyer spitballs on betting


This podcast has been one of our best performing. Not a surprise, Simon Denyer is one of the smartest guys in the room. 

Part of the conversation was about betting. 

A question I've asked a few times on the podcast is about where betting sits in the private equity playbook. 

I was struck by how bullish George Pyne was on TGL, and how explictly he referenced it as a potential betting product.

The p/e money likes betting for semi-obvious reasons to do with risk diversification and revenue predictability. 

As Denyer notes, when evaluating sports investments,

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🧵Prediction markets

'This is a bad idea. It is a very, very, very bad idea'.

Substack just did a deal with Polymarket.

From that link to Brian Moritz:

Imagine for a second that instead of Polymarket, this was FanDuel announcing an exclusive partnership with Substack. Or Draft Kings. What would your reaction be? What would everyone’s reaction be?
  1. 'Not Holy Grail truth'. I've been reading feature interviews with people from the prediction market firms. A comms playbook is emerging. Specifically, they talk a lot about truth. Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour defined markets as 'making the world a little bit
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