{"id":2864,"date":"2026-05-22T10:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:51:16","slug":"diary-of-an-igaming-exec-matt-stephenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/insights\/diary-of-an-igaming-exec-matt-stephenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of an iGaming Exec &#8211; Matt Stephenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stephenson, an instrumental figure in helping Genius Sports to become a world leader in sports data and technology, joined Robin Hutchison for the latest Diary of an iGaming Exec episode.\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\u2728<\/p>\n<p>Matt reflects on his journey through the iGaming industry, discussing the evolution of live betting, the future of sports technology and the impact of AI on the industry. He also shares valuable insights on leadership, mentorship and building a long-term career. \ud83d\ude80\ud83d\udcc8<\/p>\n<p>Matt highlights the upcoming World Cup as a major moment for the business, with Genius Sports preparing to deploy its Edge trading and risk management solution to help operators maximise performance using AI and live data. \u26bd\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Diary of an iGaming Exec - Matt Stephenson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_wnvcCkcTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Stephenson, an instrumental figure in helping Genius Sports to become a world leader in sports data and technology, joined Robin Hutchison for the latest Diary of an iGaming Exec episode.\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\u2728 Matt reflects on his journey through the iGaming industry, discussing the evolution of live betting, the future of sports technology and the impact of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"post_author_name":"","post_authors_type":"","post_authors_from_team_members":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingjobs.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}