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How I Launched a Media Company for Sports Betting at the Perfect Moment

No. 300

SPORTSGRID

CEO: Jeremy Stein

Category: Media

Three-year revenue growth: 1,888%

In 2016, former venture capital investor Jeremy Stein won $1 million playing fantasy basketball. Then he won another $1 million playing fantasy football. Dumb luck? Hardly: Stein, 37, had spent years developing algorithms to predict the outcome of games. In 2017, he used them to co-found SportsGrid, a sports betting media company—CNBC meets SportsCenter. Clutch timing, too: A year later, sports 

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