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I don't know about sports betting, that seems crazy, but I did know some people who partially bootstrapped their HFT startup by playing online poker at what wou
by pengaru 4y ago
I don't know about sports betting, that seems crazy, but I did know some people who partially bootstrapped their HFT startup by playing online poker at what would eventually become a trading desk once they finished building out their software stack. The few times I visited there was always one of the founders playing ~a dozen online poker games, one table per monitor. AIUI it kept the lights on in those early days for them.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoA business founded by compulsive gamblers. What could possibly go wrong.
- Apocryphon 4y agoSeems like stock and crypto trading completely replaced sports betting a year or two ago when pro sports games couldn't actually be played. Hence the rise of the r/WSB phenomenon. Bringing up sports betting seems anachronistic.