Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America
Albert Chen
Rating: 3.5 I have zero interest in sports, let alone fantasy games. But this book fascinated me nonetheless. It spans the beginning of the (modern) daily fantasy sports landscape to the present, starting with the founding of FanDuel in Scotland and DraftKings in Boston, moving through their early challenges battling each other for market share, then detailing the intense legal and regulatory batt
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