‘It Never Crossed My Mind That I Would Fail’: Chris Bevilacqua on the Launch of Simplebet
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When veteran sports industry executive Chris Bevilacqua launched his sports betting company, Simplebet, back in 2018, he wasn’t worried that a couple of high rollers known as DraftKings and FanDuel might run the table. “If you want to be an entrepreneur, the single most important attribute is you can’t be afraid to fail,” he says. “It never once crossed my mind that I would.”
Five years later, Bevilacqua’s risk-on attitude has catapulted the company into a major player with a unique twist: micro-betting.