Ep. 141: Building bet slips with a copilot w/ Cal Spears & Jonathan Bales from Gambly

Recorded on the day of their public launch, Ep. 141 features Cal Spears and Jonathan Bales from Gambly, which is your sports betting copilot.

Hear them discuss:

• How Cal and Jonathan came together to launch Gambly after their non-competes expired following their last exits
• The inspiration for Gambly, and the founding use cases for the product
• Why they think Gambly will add value to both casual and sharp bettors alike
• How they're thinking about the journey towards finding product-market fit
• Why they think that Gambly can catalyze a new affiliate model with sportsbooks
• Developing the underlying technology that powers the product, and how they've abstracted its complexity with an intuitive UX
• The background on their strategic partnership with Unabated
• Choosing to preserve equity by self-funding Gambly's development over raising seed capital
• Why Cal thinks that we "might be in a golden age" for smaller affiliates, despite the recent headwinds for larger affiliate companies
• Their top pieces of advice to other entrepreneurs building within real-money gaming

Catch the video version of this episode here.

Cal was also a former guest on Ep. 80 of The Betting Startups Podcast, where he told the full story of his 20-year journey building, scaling, and exiting several businesses within real-money gaming. Catch that episode if you missed it:

• Apple Podcast
• Spotify

Learn more 👇

➡️ Gambly website

➡️ Cal Spears on Linkedin

➡️ Jonathan Bales on Linkedin

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