Andrew Yang Podcast Can We Make Sports Gambling Healthy?
Oct 6, 2025
In this engaging conversation, Steve Kuhn, a former hedge fund manager and founder of SportsPredict, shares insights about creating a skill-based alternative to sports gambling. He explains how SportsPredict rewards data-driven predictions instead of luck, highlighting the social harms caused by traditional gambling. They discuss the impact of gambling legalization on society and explore non-monetary motivations behind betting. Steve outlines how young predictors can excel and invites listeners to try his innovative platform.
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Skill-Based Alternative To Gambling
- Steve Kuhn frames SportsPredict as a skill-based, social alternative to mainstream sports gambling.
- He argues gambling apps take high rakes and encourage risky formats like parlays that harm most users.
Legalization Shows Measurable Harms
- Andrew Yang highlights measurable social harms where legalization occurred, including reduced savings and increased domestic violence.
- He uses these patterns to argue against wider legalization and for alternatives.
Chess And Game Theory Shaped His Career
- Steve Kuhn recounts growing up obsessed with board games and chess and studying game theory at Harvard.
- He connects that background to a career as a hedge-fund manager focused on prediction skills.
