Maternity leave

It was a big day for me yesterday, with Betfair finally launching the SP mechanism.  I kicked the product off over 2 years ago, but it was a year and a half before we started work on it (the Betfair roadmap is permanently backed up).  It is a very big piece of work – in many respects the biggest single …

Poker Tourney

This year Betfair became the official sponsors of the WSOPE – the World Series of Poker Europe.  The world series of Poker is the biggest and best known tournament in the world, and this is their first foray into Europe – we are privileged to have been chosen as sponsors and we’ll put in the maximum effort to ensure it is …

The George and Ned show

From today I have two 16 year old boys in the office – Ned and George – who are on a week’s work experience.  They are spending time in different departments helping out and hopefully learning a bit about how a company like Betfair operates.  I thought it would be a good idea to give them a guest spot on my blog for the …