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Jason Robins
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Jason Robins

Tech Power Players 50 | 2024 | Ranked #4

CEO and cofounder, DraftKings

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BIOGRAPHY

Why a Tech Power Player? For growing and leading the region’s biggest online sports betting company. 

Robins, chairman, CEO, and cofounder of DraftKings, has brought his company’s sportsbook offerings to 27 states and grown DraftKings’ stock market value to about $20 billion. It all started with a fantasy—fantasy sports, that is. Robins, Matt Kalish, and Paul Liberman launched DraftKings from a Watertown apartment in 2011, first offering daily fantasy games with cash prizes and then expanding into gambling as states legalized sports betting.

CAREER MILESTONES

2023

DraftKings received one of Massachusetts’ initial online sports betting licenses.

2020

DraftKings went public.

2011

Cofounded DraftKings with Matt Kalish and Paul Liberman.

SIMILAR PROFILES

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Tech Power Players 50 | 2024 | Ranked #4

Jason Robins

CEO and cofounder, DraftKings

Also Featured on

2023 list2022 list

BIOGRAPHY

Why a Tech Power Player? For growing and leading the region’s biggest online sports betting company. 

Robins, chairman, CEO, and cofounder of DraftKings, has brought his company’s sportsbook offerings to 27 states and grown DraftKings’ stock market value to about $20 billion. It all started with a fantasy—fantasy sports, that is. Robins, Matt Kalish, and Paul Liberman launched DraftKings from a Watertown apartment in 2011, first offering daily fantasy games with cash prizes and then expanding into gambling as states legalized sports betting.

CAREER MILESTONES

2023

DraftKings received one of Massachusetts’ initial online sports betting licenses.

2020

DraftKings went public.

2011

Cofounded DraftKings with Matt Kalish and Paul Liberman.

RELATED ARTICLES
ESPN vs. DraftKings. Which sports gambling app are you betting on?

ESPN vs. DraftKings. Which sports gambling app are you betting on?

DraftKings drops out of bidding for Australian company’s US unit

DraftKings drops out of bidding for Australian company’s US unit

DraftKings bids for smaller rival in effort to block Fanatics

DraftKings bids for smaller rival in effort to block Fanatics

SIMILAR PROFILES