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.
Scaling an iGaming company requires exceptional product, strong leadership, and high-performance teams in competitive betting markets.In this episode of Under Pressure, Alex sits down with Tom Light, CEO of FIRST, to explore how his journey from professional gambler and sportsbook operator led to building a company focused on developing high-performance sportsbook technology.Tom shares how early experience in sports betting, poker, and running a sportsbook shaped his understanding of risk, markets, and player behaviour. He also speaks candidly about difficult decisions he made while scaling the company, including restructuring management, bringing in new leadership talent, and building a culture focused on accountability and results.The conversation also explores broader trends shaping the industry, including how competitive betting markets are evolving, the importance of strong product in a crowded supplier landscape, and the realities operators face when building sustainable sportsbook businesses.Rather than chasing hype, Tom emphasizes building exceptional products, empowering operators with better tools, and creating companies that can compete long-term in the iGaming industry.
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