Sep 21, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
Las Vegas startups don't usually begin with prehistoric shark teeth. Odditt did. Matt Bresler spent seven years reselling fossils on eBay, left Tufts at 21, and used that money to bootstrap a…
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In high school, on a family trip to South Carolina, he saw giant fossilized shark teeth for sale.
He got hooked, so to speak, and spent seven years buying, repairing, and reselling fossils on eBay.
At 21, he left Tufts University and used that money to bootstrap a software company.
The parlays, the player props, these two things happened together last time, Angles.
Adith Software does it automatically, more than 100,000 contextualized bets and parlays a day across 115 leagues in 45 countries off 25 years of historical data.
He moved the company to Las Vegas in 2024, raised a pre-seed round, and brought on Elaine Millardo as CTO and co-founder.
Millardo was DraftKings' first data hire and grew that data platform team past 100 engineers.
We talk about Blackfire Innovation as ecosystem infrastructure, a building, a partnership, a ribbon cutting.
This is what it looks like working a real company in the one industry the city knows better than anybody else with a senior operator who could work anywhere choosing to be here in Vegas.
In high school, on a family trip to South Carolina, he saw giant fossilized shark teeth for sale.
He got hooked, so to speak, and spent seven years buying, repairing, and reselling fossils on eBay.
At 21, he left Tufts University and used that money to bootstrap a software company.
The parlays, the player props, these two things happened together last time, Angles.
Adith Software does it automatically, more than 100,000 contextualized bets and parlays a day across 115 leagues in 45 countries off 25 years of historical data.
He moved the company to Las Vegas in 2024, raised a pre-seed round, and brought on Elaine Millardo as CTO and co-founder.
Millardo was DraftKings' first data hire and grew that data platform team past 100 engineers.
We talk about Blackfire Innovation as ecosystem infrastructure, a building, a partnership, a ribbon cutting.
This is what it looks like working a real company in the one industry the city knows better than anybody else with a senior operator who could work anywhere choosing to be here in Vegas.
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