Tag Archives: Flutter
Meet Nigel Eccles, a veteran of UK’s betting exchange industry, and an innovator.
Nigel Eccles (HudBud CEO – Previously with McKinsey, Betdaq, and BetFair-Flutter)
HubDub is developing a web application which will change the way people discover, track and interact with news stories.
His startup: HubDub – (What they are brewing: a news aggregator using some kind of prediction market mechanism.)
More info:
What we are developing is a social news aggregation [...]
Person-to-person freeform betting
Some time ago on Midas Oracle there was reference to flutter.com as one of the first sites that allowed users to create their own markets. I was lucky enough to be a product manager with flutter from mid-2000 through to early 2002 so I know the story very well. Flutter merged with Betfair in early [...]
Guess where Flutter founder Vince Monical is working right now??
At Google, of course. As “Director of Commerce and Analytics”.
- Flutter was bought out by BetFair in December 2001 —a “merger”, they said.
- Justin Wolfers knows Vince Monical too well. PDF
Two vivid British teens give you a tour of BetFair.
From Andrew Black’s blog (the co-founder of BetFair).
George and Ned during their summer 2007 internship at BetFair (which lasted one week):
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George and Ned:
We met Kirsten Rawlings who is in charge of the [usability] project. She showed us the company’s latest equipment, the technology was incredible. It included high Tec cameras, eye tracers and a one [...]
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