I’ve got some catching up to do, but first a quick note on Major Eazy in the 7:15 at Lingfield tonight. Brian described him this morning as “a certainty”. I’ve been in racing for long enough to know that certainties as described are anything but, and I suspect ME is no exception to this. Two hurdles stand in his way …
Ned and George Interview – Anthony Carlos
How did you end up working at betfair? I met a guy in the pub watching the world cup match between Sweden and England in Westminster almost 5 years ago. He told me about betfair and its concept, and I thought it would be a good idea to get in contact and see what it was all about. Later I …
Ned and George Interview – David Yu Interview
How did you come to Betfair? I was working for Flutter which was started by two Americans and was based in London. Flutter was behind Betfair but growing. I spoke to the founder of Flutter and asked him how the company was doing as my wife was renting a house in California. He told me they were going to merge …
Ned and George Interview – Martin Cruddace
What bought you to Betfair? I was lucky enough to be a partner in a private practice the law was to narrow for me so I wanted to become involved in sports law. I acted for the jockeys during the mobile phone case and it was played up in the press €“ at the same time Betfair were looking for …
Ned and George Interview – Tony Calvin
Who are you and what is your job title? Tony Calvin, senior press officer. I started here in June 2002, and have been here for 5 years. I deal with betting related queries and liase with the sponsorship teams. I also deal with stories that break on the site, so there is a good knowledge of sport required. Did you …
Ned and George Interview – Tony Clare
What is your role in betfair? My role is product manager. I manage a team, and its our job to deliver all the products that make up the whole overall offering as it is, so that€™s controlling the site from the original idea, through the design and through the validation of the ideas to the final delivery. What was your …
George & Ned Diary Day 5
Our final day in betfair. After a long and extremely fascinating and enjoyable week we only had 1 day left the week seemed to go very fast. We spent the morning of our final day polishing off and finalising our interviews and blog entries. Throughout the week we both found blogging an enjoyable experience, whilst learning about the significance of …
George & Ned Diary Day 4
Continuing from yesterday, we still had to do one final interview, which was the main task we were working on today. We spent the morning typing up the interviews from yesterday. It was a difficult job having to listen to an interview repeatedly on a Dictaphone. After a long period of writing and typing, we had yet another top …
George & Ned Diary Day 3
We spent the day preparing questions that we were going to put forward to some of the more senior members of Betfair. It was challenging as we had to do a bit of research on their background and had to think of suitable questions; we were kindly helped with some of the questions that we were going to ask. We …
George & Ned Diary Day 2
We began our second day at betfair with market research, in which we were given a task to help improve Betfairs€™ website. We spent the following hour completing the task by comparing betfair with its twelve closest competitors. We put forward our ideas to see if our input led to any changes. Our afternoon consisted of two meetings, the first …