New season of relevant podcast Bet It Drives, powered by GR8_TECH, continued in Lisbon with Pierre Lindh, one of iGaming’s most connected media personalities, joining Yevhen Krazhan, CSO at GR8_TECH, for a conversation spanning industry friendships, editorial independence, prediction markets, entrepreneurship, and a couple of unexpected phone calls.
Lindh has spent his entire career around gaming, events, media and community building. Twenty years in, he says the relationships behind the industry remain one of the main reasons he’s still so invested in it.
However, being close to the industry also creates one of media’s hardest challenges: remaining independent while reporting on the same companies, partners, and people you work with every day. Lindh talks openly about how NEXT.io navigates that balance, before the conversation moves into where the industry is heading next, and who is moving fast enough to get there first.
In this 18-minute episode, this executive analyzes different issues, such as the following: friends, partners and competitors: why iGaming’s tight-knit network remains one of its biggest strengths; the reality of independent media: how NEXT.io approaches difficult stories involving partners and shareholders; why iGaming needs to cooperate: Lindh argues that regulatory, political, and external pressure makes industry collaboration essential; prediction markets are different: why he believes they aren’t another gambling vertical or sports betting alternative; building Next Predict at speed: how the team compressed what would normally be a two-year conference launch into just eight months; the opportunity for betting companies: why established sportsbook expertise could become a major advantage in prediction markets; confess or call: Pierre avoids some uncomfortable questions by putting his team to the test with live prank calls, and running and entrepreneurship: what building a company feels like.
“Pierre is one of those people who seems to know everyone, but what stands out more is that he genuinely cares about people in this industry. He has been part of it for 20 years, he understands how it works, where it is changing, and he is never afraid to have difficult conversations. That mix of experience, curiosity, and energy is what makes him such an important voice in iGaming,” said Krazhan, CSO at GR8_TECH and host of Bet It Drives.
Watch or listen to Season 5 Episode 2 of Bet It Drives on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
