Nigel Eccles

And to me, that's like, I always wanna build a business where people are passionate and excited, and so I was like, "This is a great category."

This is Nigel Eccles, and in 2009 while Nick was winning 100 grand on Millionaire and starting NumberFire, Nigel, along with his wife and a small group of friends, founded another company, one that was going to, in startup parlance, disrupt fantasy sports.

That company, it was called FanDuel.

FanDuel Sportsbook.

In fact, it wasn't until 1992 that Congress, under pressure from the leagues, felt obligated to make that explicit to individual states.

That year, Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA, effectively banning sports betting across the entire U.S. with one notable exception, Nevada, and that was that.

So when Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, came out as the first league executive to endorse legalizing sports gambling, Nigel Eccles, the CEO of the daily fantasy sports company FanDuel, was floored.

We had spent the last several years saying, "We're not sports betting.

And to me that's like, I always wanna build a business where people are passionate and excited, and so I was like, "This is a great category."

This is Nigel Eccles, and in 2009, while Nick was winning 100 grand on Millionaire and starting NumberFire, Nigel, along with his wife and a small group of friends, founded another company.

One that was going to, in startup parlance, disrupt fantasy sports.

That company, it was called FanDuel.

In fact, it wasn't until 1992 that Congress, under pressure from the leagues, felt obligated to make that explicit to individual states.

That year, Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA, effectively banning sports betting across the entire U.S. with one notable exception, Nevada, and that was that.

So when Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, came out as the first league executive to endorse legalizing sports gambling, Nigel Eccles, the CEO of the daily fantasy sports company FanDuel, was floored.

We had spent the last several years saying, "We're not sports betting.

This is

Nigel Eccles.

And in 2009, while Nick was winning $100,000 on Millionaire and starting Numberfire, Nigel, along with his wife and a small group of friends, founded another company, one that was going to, in startup parlance, disrupt fantasy sports.

That company, it was called FanDuel.

That year, Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, or PASPA, effectively banning sports betting across the entire U.S., with one notable exception, Nevada.

And that was that.

So when Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, came out as the first league executive to endorse legalizing sports gambling, Nigel Eccles, the CEO of the daily fantasy sports company FanDuel, was floored.

We had spent the last several years saying, we're not sports betting, we're a game of skill.

And that was that.

So when Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, came out as the first league executive to endorse legalizing sports gambling, Nigel Eccles, the CEO of the daily fantasy sports company FanDuel, was floored.

We had spent the last several years saying, we're not sports betting, we're a game of skill.

And so at the very same moment that we do a deal with the NBA, he also writes a thing that sports betting should be legal.

So I need to put a hundred bucks on a roulette spin or whatever it is, right?

Nigel Eccles, one of the founders of FanDuel, says there are some issues with VIP programs.

The question is where to draw the line.

That one is very hard.

Let me stop.

It was more so like, let me keep going so I can feel good.

I asked Nigel Eccles, the co-founder of FanDuel, about this.

When he hears about sports bettors who have developed traits of problem gambling, what does he think?