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How We Bounced Back From an Industrywide Black Eye

FanDuel helped turn fantasy sports into a billion-dollar business. But in 2015, the industry faced a backlash. Nigel Eccles, FanDuel’s co-founder and CEO, lays out the moves he took to douse the crisis and move on.

DURING football season of 2015, the daily fantasy sports category really burst into the mainstream. A lot of that had to do with the huge amounts of advertising we and our competitors were running, which attracted a lot of consumer interest but also created an environment of scrutiny.

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