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Jason Robins and the advantage of a shorter season
Jason Robins helped turn the season-long ritual of fantasy sports into a daily business. The DraftKings co-founder has spent the years since learning how quickly the game around a company can change.
Peter Sullivan Put the Lottery in Your Pocket. Then He Took the Long Way Out.
A daily detour for his father’s lottery numbers became a 13-year lesson in product design, patient regulation and knowing when to hand over the ticket.
Woodrow Levin
Woodrow 'Woody' Levin is the founder and CEO of Extend, a San Francisco company that built an API-first platform letting online merchants offer extended warranties, product protection, shipping protection and post-purchase solutions. Often described as 'AppleCare for everything else,' Extend raised a $260M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 in 2021 at a valuation above $1.6 billion. A serial entrepreneur, Levin previously founded BringIt (acquired by International Game Technology), Estate Assist (acquired by DocuSign, where he became VP of Growth), and the crypto asset fund 3.0 Capital. He also sits on the board of DraftKings.
Eric Olson
Eric Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Consensus, an AI search engine that pulls evidence-based answers out of more than 200 million peer-reviewed scientific papers. A former Northwestern University offensive lineman who became a data scientist at DraftKings, Olson built Consensus with his college teammate Christian Salem so that ordinary people would not feel like outsiders to science. The company launched publicly in 2022 and raised an $11.5M Series A in 2024 led by Union Square Ventures, with backing from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.