The Under Pressure Podcast
The Under Pressure Podcast
Podcast Description
I’m Alexandre Tomic—founder, builder, and someone who’s spent 20 years navigating iGaming’s highs and lows. Through launching Alea and pioneering game aggregation, I’ve learned that resilience is everything.
On The Under Pressure Podcast, I sit down with founders, risk-takers, and visionaries to explore the defining moments that shaped them—the risks, the failures, and the lessons learned.
Why the hyperbaric chamber? Because legends aren’t built in comfort. Diamonds are made under pressure.
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The podcast focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and the challenges of the iGaming industry, with episodes discussing pivotal moments, risks taken, and lessons learned, such as interviews covering the evolution of gaming events and personal stories like those of Alex Pratt's transformative experiences in the sector.
I’m Alexandre Tomic—founder, builder, and someone who’s spent 20 years navigating iGaming’s highs and lows. Through launching Alea and pioneering game aggregation, I’ve learned that resilience is everything.
On The Under Pressure Podcast, I sit down with founders, risk-takers, and visionaries to explore the defining moments that shaped them—the risks, the failures, and the lessons learned.
Why the hyperbaric chamber? Because legends aren’t built in comfort. Diamonds are made under pressure.
Subscribe and listen everywhere you want.
Iconic iGaming products look obvious once everyone knows their names.
Spribe’s Aviator feels like an obvious hit. Nolimit City’s identity feels impossible to copy. SmartSoft’s crash games feel built for the modern player. FIRST’s sportsbook engine feels designed for where betting is heading next. But none of them started that way.
In this Greatest Hits edition of The Under Pressure Podcast, Alexandre Tomic brings together four stories from the builders behind some of iGaming’s most recognisable products: David Natroshvili, Jonás Tegman, Guga Gotsadze and Tom Light. The common thread? They were rejected, they kept building, they watched what players actually did and then they iterated until the numbers became impossible to ignore.
What You’ll Learn
How David Natroshvili sold Spribe’s Aviator before the industry understood crash games
How personal relationships helped Spribe grow during the pandemic
Why Nolimit City abandoned traditional slot design and targeted a new generation of players
Why high volatility, bonus buys, replays, and streamer culture became central to Nolimit City’s product strategy
How SmartSoft transformed crash games into branded, scalable products
Why control, visible wins and social comparison make crash games different from conventional casino games
Why fast releases and real player feedback matter more than waiting for a perfect product
Why Tom Light rebuilt FIRST’s management structure before relaunching its sportsbook product
What Tom means when he says disruption is speed with conviction
Why resilience repeatedly beats talent when building a category defining product
Episode Resources:
David Natroshvili on LinkedIn
Spribe Website
Jonás Tegman on LinkedIn
Nolimit City Website
Guga Gotsadze on LinkedIn
SmartSoft Website
Tom Light on LinkedIn
FIRST Website
Alexandre Tomic on LinkedIn
Alea Website
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