DraftKings Inc (DKNG) 2025 财年企业会议

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企业参会人员:

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Jason Robins(联合创始人、首席执行官兼董事长)

分析师:

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Shaun Kelley(美银证券)

发言人:Shaun Kelley

好的,各位,是时候继续了,你知道,时间到了。所以我们还有一点,一点时间来进行更长的对话。我很高兴欢迎 Jason Robins,DraftKings 的联合创始人兼首席执行官。

发言人:Jason Robins

谢谢。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

非正式的事情放在一边。去年,如果你不记得了,就在这次活动之前,我想你从迈阿密进来,只睡了几个小时。Whoop 是。没错。那么我们在 2025 年的恢复表上处于什么位置?

发言人:Jason Robins

今天好一点了。好一点了。我在这里待了整个晚上。而且没有 fl。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

另一个成名的 claim 是去年的夹克?

发言人:Jason Robins

是的。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

今年不是。不是顶级抽屉,但有一个 DraftKings 绣有 one of one 系列。

发言人:Jason Robins

在里面。是的,完全正确。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

所以,再次感谢你花时间与我们在一起。如果可以的话,我想先开始,我肯定想从很多不同的问题开始。我们称之为我将称之为在线增长的算法。对于在线游戏 broadly 和在线体育博彩 in particular。我们处理 handle 和 hold 和 promo。我们正在分配所有这些变量,但我认为为我们设定一个基准会有所帮助,让你思考它们如何在真空中存在。但我怀疑这实际上是你内部实际做的事情。

我很想知道,就像,你每天走进来的时候,实际上是如何与产品团队谈论驱动的,你知道, kind of working backwards。这些如何成为你与代理合作时的输出?

发言人:Jason Robins

所以,我的意思是,我认为在最简单的层面上,有两件事。所以我们倾向于以这种方式来看待它。你知道,例如,我认为你在谈论像 handle 和所有其他你可以分解的东西,当你看收入时。我们并不真的,我猜他们在他们的模型中有一个 handle 数字,但这实际上不是他们管理它的方式。他们在想,我需要达到这个收入和毛利润数字,hold 或 promo 效率。这些是我基本上必须拉动以达到目标的杠杆。

他们正试图让飞机降落在这个数字上。所以真正推动你的结构性持有率,提高促销效率,这将对 handle 产生影响,就像以前时期一样,如果,你知道,更高。所以它们都 kind of move together,我们真正看的是收入,最终是毛利润。然后显然我们看客户级别的指标,比如他们是否投注多个体育项目?他们是否以我们预期的频率进行游戏,以及那些类型的事情?

发言人:Shaun Kelley

当这转化为你与财务团队的对话时,当你在季度中,你的水平是如何与那种华尔街要求的 KPIs 互动的。你作为一个商业领袖,你真的专注于那种收入吗?成本信息是什么?你是如何思考发展你的业务并平衡这与试图推动一些规模?

发言人:Jason Robins

嗯,我现在实际上更关心成本前景。原因是我认为 AI 正在改变我们 potentially 需要或不需要增长我们的 fitness 的方式。更多的 AI 工程师,我们正在部署一些新工具,但我认为我们将在人员编制上产生的效率,你知道,能够 AI 代理,并且也在某些领域减少,我认为在未来几年对我们来说将是一件大事。所以这是我们非常关注的指标,显然再次确保我们看到健康的客户指标,并且我们对参与感到满意,但我们真正关注的是我们如何能够 monetize 客户,并试图改善那个客户,最终提高 ltv。

所以这真的是我们思考的方式。LTV 显然取决于你测量它的时间。所以这可能是一件棘手的事情。但我们已经到了,对于一个现有客户,我认为我们可以非常准确地预测我们期望那批现有客户做什么。可能不是单个客户,而是一批客户。所以即使当我们获取他们时,有点棘手且有时更难预测的是实际新客户的数量。如你所记得,可能一年前我们被 having years 所困,但让促销运行得有点高。

所以你知道,我们显然调整了那个,那有点像不太可预测。但要真正知道一个客户将要做什么。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

这两个指标的平衡,在我现在用华尔街 KPIs hammer 你之前,但在我们去那里之前,这两个变量的平衡是什么?我们是否仍然看到新客户进入这个行业?他们的花费是否与现有 cohort 一样多,或者那个黄金 cohort 赢了,并且当你获取那个增量客户时,你看到某种花费的 degradation?

发言人:Jason Robins

今天,在头一两年 definitely 有一个黄金 cohort。一旦你过了那个阶段,基本上是我们一直 consistently 获取的客户 Same profile,我们对产品所做的改进实际上 monetizing 这些新客户比我们几年前获取的那些更好。但看起来没有这种持续的 degradation。尽管肯定有一个黄金 cohort asymptotes out really quickly,我认为。而且有时很难区分客户和产品也改进了很多。但如果你是。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

所以再次现在让我们思考一下这种华尔街输出,即我们,你知道,我们确实 breakdown 所有这些州级别的数字。从六月开始。我们谈到了这种平衡,你知道,当我们开始深入研究 Campbell 增长时,这是一种 obsession kind of walking out of the first quarter going into the second。嘿,看,我们可以激励这些行为,对吧?如果我们给 XYZ 促销,我们可以驱动很多 handle。我相信我们当时的讨论都是关于你的注册奖金 friendly 一年前可能更 hold driven 一年后。你能详细说明或讨论一下吗?因为我认为这对每个人来说都是一个非常重要的信息,我认为。

发言人:Jason Robins

并不是说我们完全不再这样做了,但更多的是相对于我们今天的位置。我们更专注于 handle 增长, less focused on driving up 在过去的几年里,特别是在过去的一年里,我们在结构性持有和促销效率方面取得了巨大的进步。而这已经到来,你知道,我认为伴随着一些较慢的 handle 增长。我们这样看,好吧,我可以达到各种 angle 数字,但我的持有必须是这个,我的促销必须是这个。我们正试图最终最大化整个方程,通过专注于结构性持有和促销效率,我认为至少在短期内,这不会改变关注点。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

就你所做的事情而言,特别是在过去一年, really 过去几个季度, parlay mix 的主要 multi hundred basis point 改进。这是关键变量 product side。看到结果令人惊叹。但你是怎么做的?是 merchandising 吗?是某种类型的玩家你能找到吗?它正在工作,能够驱动这个,因为你知道,从 standpoint 来看,我们不再年轻,这不是,你知道,一年后你还在学习和评估,到现在已经这么远了。

发言人:Jason Robins

是的,我的意思是我想。首先,它 largely 是 parlay mix。显然我们也在不断改进我们的模型,但结构性持有但 also more higher margin singles bets, more legs added to parlays 的主要驱动因素。所以不仅仅是纯粹什么百分比的投注或 parlay,而是所有那些事情。更高 margin 的投注。它并不真的是一件事,而更像是你如何 merchandising market promote 的组合。在第二季度,我们运行了一个非常 activation heavy 的促销,那是 singles bet Focus,这对 activation 效果不错,但没有 singles bet focus。所以实际上,例如 NFL 开始,我们正在推出 stacks Ghost Leg,我的意思是这些是我们正在推出的产品功能。

Stax 是一个 narrative driven parlay builder。Ghost Leg 是一个。你仍然得到 credit。所以这就是我们投资我们的产品美元,我们的促销美元的地方。它是我们如何使用我们的营销渠道,每当我们做任何类型的 influencer 或 talent based 类型的东西时,只是真正地将整个事情 orienting 尽可能多地作为一种你可以驱动的行为。我不认为有更多这种类型或那种类型的客户我们需要吸引。我认为 parlay 很有趣,你只需要让他们去做,你必须给他们理由去尝试它。

所以这就是我们现在正在做的事情。而且我认为这体现在所有那些事情上。但总结的最好方式。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

shortly,它也提醒了 Julie 和我,当我们开始写我们所有的笔记时,关于会有一点那个星期天晚上 adjuda。关于这个星期天的 matchup 是相当大的。所以。你知道我们在谈论,你知道 driving hold 作为一个,作为一个 major important outcome。你知道,当 parlay mix 上升时,有 inverse of when those hit,特别是如果有 volatility also goes up。那么你如何考虑那个?就像那是,那是你甚至关心的事情,还是你像 Tom,这是数学。而且你知道,随着时间的推移,我们在这里超级舒服。你如何考虑管理那种 volatility 作为一个博彩公司,这是你工作的一个非常基本的部分?

发言人:Jason Robins

我的意思是 care 是我们的一些股东 care。但我的观点更像是你所说的。这是数学,做任何产生更多长期预期价值的事情是有意义的。所以从来不在任何情况下我们承担不可管理的风险。我们有很多 controls in place for that。这就是为什么即使我们在体育方面有一个糟糕的季度,我们仍然持有相当接近 10%。对。所以我的意思是,就像 80 或 something。Percent。所以,你知道,我们不会处于一个我们将要的位置。

一旦你 kind of cross that threshold,你就像,好吧,就像我正在管理风险方面。我认为你只是想最大化 EV 和最大化长期价值。也有 volatility。你知道,客户喜欢 volatility,因为即使它有时让他们输,他们实际上也可以有一些赢的 streaks。所以,你知道,那是部分是什么让,你知道,以完全相同的比率赢或输。我认为从客户的角度来看,这会 less interesting。所以我们正试图平衡所有那些事情,并且显然关心,你知道,一些股东。

几乎就像 kind of at least when we were getting asked a lot about this before,有这种 underlying,你知道,我认为问题没有被真正问到,我认为 behind it, which is。而且我认为那是 as much。问题是,嘿,你对 volatility 感到 cool 吗?我认为如果每个人都像,是的,我真的感觉很好,结构性持有是正确的,并且会有一些 volatility,那么当然。但是当你有一个,你知道, naturally 你会得到一些问题。所以我们做了很多工作来尝试组装,你知道, factual data on like the read which favorites one and other things to show。

即使人们,我不知道,我只是相信你的话,这是 outcomes。我认为上个季度能够回来说我们有一个 material,你知道, positive outperformance。为什么我做了很多这些 volatility 问题,因为,你知道,如果你回来连续两个季度说,是的,我们被杀了,然后就像,好吧,嗯,volatility 应该双向摆动。所以它正在正常化到我们认为它将在任何真实时间段内达到的位置。而且 volatility swings 是双向的。

而且看起来它是正常的。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

对 parlay 的 gravitation 理论上应该在一定程度上增加 volatility,但如果它们是独立的结果则不会。但我们遇到的一个问题是,你知道,这是 something that,你知道,或者 pre pack parlay,对吧?是你进入,最终人们 also want to bet the same socially kind of want to bet the same thing that their friends bet。然后你得到。你是否期望随着时间的推移,随着产品套件的发展,人们会做更多不同的事情,或者你看到一些这种 herd mentality。而且再次,作为大事件,你知道,我们进入。

它变得真的更大,因为每个人都看到巨大的机会,然后 kind of says,好吧,我想成为,你知道,人群的一部分。所以你如何从行为角度看待它的演变?

发言人:Jason Robins

嗯,我的意思是,我认为 1。这是我所说的部分。风险缓解是我们不能也不允许集中度达到 creates,你知道,我们达到某个水平,我们会保护 against that。但是,你知道,我认为在大多数情况下,并且有非常罕见的例外 where that does come,并且这,我认为,是我们相对于市场上大多数人的竞争优势 at this point。有如此多 variety 的事情,并且有如此多样化的投注在应用程序中进行 Volume one。它仍然不是那么 concentrated relative to how much is going on throughout the entirety of the app。

所以我们真的在最近的记忆中没有任何问题 where that came into play。但是我们 years ago 有一个促销活动 viral 了,那是为了一个 really long shot parlay,并且它 virtually no shot of hitting。我的意思是,它就像,你知道,Lockett, essentially,我们 up to about 100, 000, 000 million of risk or 200 million of risk。我们就像,我们不会 beyond that。但那是最后一次我能记得发生这种情况。而且我认为 thresholds 现在有点更高。投资者和所有那些我认为会帮助的是我们也改变了一点我们如何做我们的 guidance, in light of this。

我认为我们在某些方面加剧了 by focusing on a guidance midpoint and moving it anytime there was a dollar shift one way or the other for outcomes, which,你知道,这次 around 我们说,看,即使我们。我们正试图 focus people away from a midpoint and more towards a range。所以我 kind of think 我们有点 shot ourselves in the foot, like guiding to a precise midpoint, essentially, which。No。所以我认为那也会帮助把我们放在更多的 light of like,哦,是的,这只是正常的 volatility 就像你在任何业务中看到的那样,因为我们不会 frequently be adjusting our guidance。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

你知道,在我们对话中出现的大话题中。我不知道在过去的,你知道,三个月里,有没有比 prediction market 更大的一个。你知道, since even last public comment。这里 evolved 了很多。所以你知道,FanDuel 宣布了与 CME 的合作关系。Underdog 宣布了,你知道,而 Polymarket 截至昨天 from what we can tell 正式回到美国 out of products live。但他们能够在这里更 independently 运营 than they were this vertical。你知道我们你有一个非常有趣的 sort of open to the idea,你知道, always need to be around the hoop but maybe don't phrase that poorly but unpack that for us a little bit。

而且 just as you started to see some of the strategic moves around you。DraftKings 现在在哪里?

发言人:Jason Robins

嗯,我的意思是我想这个空间 going to evolve 并且我会回来 kind of where we're going。但是你知道,现在你是对的。有很多 cars being turned over in real time 所以我们得到很多,你知道 and it continues to appear that at least at the federal level there's going to be this, this is going to be here to stay。所以然后问题变成 okay, like what happens Like a poly market,他们不必担心那个,并且他们 also don't have any revenue risk in the states。

但是你知道,我认为对于像我们这样的人,我们,你知道, place where we could not have as much risk is largely focusing on places that did not have online sports betting for anything that resembles sports board's predictions which was I think what Flutter announced they were doing at least initially。我认为那可能更 widespread but also depends and we have to sort of see how that goes applies not just to this but I think it's especially important for this of the mindset that why you know make an announcement before you have to on anything。

所以你知道我不 time came we were ready to actually act on those plans or pretty close to ready to act on those plans。而且我认为那只是 kind of seeing internally we can't be preparing and doing things and slowing down at all there 的最好方式。所以我不知道是否 as much I'd say like we don't think that we should be an early mover。我们必须确保我们有正确的东西,并且我们 prepared to do it。当那发生时,如果那发生,我们会宣布 something,但我们不觉得我们需要在那之前宣布 anything which is and cons to both I think but that's just for whatever for better or worse how we've always kind of operated in these types of situations。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

我的意思是你提出了一个有趣的观点,就像如果我 up level this a little bit,我只会开始于这是否是一个你不能忽视的 TAM?对。所以我们思考正在发生的事情的规模,因为有,我们说这是,你知道, pick your number high single digit of nics 并且这是一个一直存在的产品。但然后你看到产品 evolution 并且有 heck of a lot of people that did similar UK as big of a deal or as not big either。你知道,你如何 kind of come out on is this a。

你知道,人们谈论 rights win in this。它可能不像你想象的那么大。你知道,你在这个问题上处于什么位置?我需要在这里 pay attention。

发言人:Jason Robins

我的意思是我想这很简单。我认为 TAM 机会 likely to be very 并且我认为它 likely to be fairly small in states that do have online sports betting。我给你两个理由。一, evidence based 并且它是总收入的 single digit percentage,我认为这表明当两种产品都可用时,客户 overwhelmingly prefer traditional。从概念上讲,在 prediction market set up 中 ever have as full featured an offering as you could in an online sports book 将非常困难。你知道,作为做市商,在交易所上的市场,你必须 comfortable with anyone taking that liquidity。

任何人你知道,可以 fill that order versus reason。我们能够提供各种投注和我们能做的事情。如果我们提供所有我们提供的不同投注,并且我们不能那样做,我们会被 pick off and destroyed。对。Parlays 和其他种类的 combinability 和类似的事情。例如,如果你正在推出,我们刚才 actually 在谈论这个 a very high leg parlay you have。所以这很难。即使你知道你将赢得绝大多数这些 parlay,并且你有足够的 variety out there that you're not going to lose on,你知道,你不会。

即使你 somehow knew that if because you don't know who's taking your bet on the or who's taking the order on the other side,你也必须 then collateralize all that too。所以我只是认为在那种类型的监管框架下,在在线体育博彩中 virtually impossible。但毫无疑问,在一个没有在线体育博彩 available 的州,至少是合法的,会有人们 just want to go and do。我看待它的方式,我认为 where you have both,它 clearly in my mind going to be challenging for that product to compete。

但我认为 where you don't have anything else。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

这里 tech stack 的 kind of verticality 变得 just absolutely required that you own your own tech。你们 super early 并且对 SV tech 有很多 foresight which I think has turned further technology simple bet and other things you've built around that beyond that。但它再次成为 de rigor 并且那是你在美国在线体育中所做的事情 that going to be there for prediction。因为现在允许更快 move to market 的事情之一 for the public announcements that have occurred has been owning,你知道,has。

Been。Owning a vertical tech stack。所以你知道,你认为这将成为这个 landscape 的必要部分吗,或者 exchange based model 不同?

发言人:Jason Robins

你知道, hard to know do you want to own your tech?但是哪些部分的 tech are absolutely essential to own and what's not?而且我认为 too early to know exactly what the strategy controlling more is always in almost any case I can think of in a technology product better but you know, it doesn't mean everything。即使今天我们没有,我们使用。有很多 pieces。所以我不认为我有 enough understanding of this ecosystem to know that yet。而且我认为我们在体育博彩中所做的,你知道,它可能开始于与 Cambie 在 B2B 方面合作。

花了我们几年时间才真正意识到,也许一年前我们意识到我们,我们 gotta。而且你知道,我认为部分原因是拥有或拥有我们自己的技术 initially wasn't even realistic at that point。而且我认为,你知道,那些都是因素我认为你必须考虑。但一般来说,我认为拥有更多技术 usually better in almost any consumer product than not。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

就像作为 CEO,似乎有一些金融技术的 nexus 正在进入这个讨论 here。无论你看起来像 sort of an onboard or obviously on the brand or broker side of this。但我想从 drafting's perspective 问这个 a meaningful platform in sort of a non split sports context or how important is the Sports overlay to DraftKings as we start to think about,你知道, some world where convergence of you know, and then truly a sports offering starts coming together?

发言人:Jason Robins

你知道,这是一个非常有趣的问题你问的,并且我认为如果事情 divergence there 并且你知道,它实际上真的 for one simple reason which is if we do end up,你知道, going into something like predictions or sport to get basically the,你知道, build up the regulatory framework to operate the same types of products that you're taught like financial instruments of a variety。对。当我们只做 fantasy sports 时,想到以任何方式进入在线是一个巨大的 dig when it was smaller in the US because it was just a lot of effort and at that time I think it was just New Jersey investment。

我们 built out everything we need to do with sports betting。对?是的,我们不妨做 igaming。我们已经有很多那个。我们知道那里有一个市场机会,并且 so successful for us。但就像如果我 approaching for example the other way and saying we just jump into financial products absent of anything like this,我会说我不知道我们是否有 right to win or if that's the place we might as well at least explore extending into there。而且我认为,你知道,那 sort of what you're seeing is that the Robinhoods, the financial products are starting to potentially you can see the other side happen too once this,你知道, all of this if it all gets built out。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

所以让我们 pivot to product and mentioned ig。所以让我们 just stay on that for a minute here。我在想,你知道 FanDuel has been pushing in this area。Caesars has done this,你知道, and pushing the kind of casino first。对。哪里。你。To kind of more of it OSB cross sell lens。因为我认为再次那个 scenario where you were super early and successful with a product like Rocket,但它 led you towards demo possibly different even branding and certainly a slot first experience which requires maybe a third party set of product around that as well。

发言人:Jason Robins

你 kind of summarized it。我们 early 并且我认为 did a very good job focusing on the cross sell side from sports with table games and games like Rocket as hard after as we are now the opportunity for slots first customers。我认为这对我们来说是一个 big opportunity。如果你看我们在桌面游戏市场的份额,它是 orders of。那里 clearly 有很多 low hanging fruit。我认为有一些 element that's product but most of it I think is the marketing and you're going after like you were saying。我不认为它像哦我们有产品,我们有游戏,我们有设置。

我不认为历史上我们 actually 可能 to your point on like,你知道,我不想说 branding but like the way that it certainly don't think we have been marketing that way。所以那是我们正在 adjusting now 的事情,并且 hopefully 我们会在那里有一些 real opportunity。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

你关心 put a time frame around my next set of questions going to NFL launch so it's not like your engineers and product people aren't super busy。IEMI kind of fall on the priority list right now and kind of what time frame should invest。

发言人:Jason Robins

Frame for anything like share or anything like that?因为有 so much,你知道 that goes into that。但我认为现在我们正在 making dramatic improvements and customer and I don't think that was true a few months ago。所以当那 will start to really show up in numbers that you guys look at?我现在不知道。所以我期望 results to follow。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

在 leadership 方面。是通过 DraftKings 品牌还是 Gold Nugget?你们怎么样?

发言人:Jason Robins

两者。我认为两者。而且你知道什么有趣吗?不是通过一个 separate brand。所以我不 convinced that the brand is the problem。我认为它是我们 marketing 的方式,以及我们 marketing 和 targeting 的人,以及桌面游戏客户和 cross sell 客户。结果我认为我们在那里真的有 really high share。所以我 kind of look at it as if we're even able to get to half of the share we have of the table games growth in the next couple years。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

所以让我们回到体育 then。NFL 赛季今晚 kicks off。我不会问你是谁 going to。好吧,也许我会问。那么 books 在为谁 rooting。

发言人:Jason Robins

Sort of game time?那个我还不知道。但我无法想象它不会是,你知道,我无法想象它会是 Eagles。即使,你知道,谁知道钱正在流向 Eagles,我认为。但我们看看。你知道,我不 necessarily 知道。我认为有很多,然后我 right after kickoff 看数字,我就像,这里发生了什么?这完全 opposite of what stocks do。他们做什么。是的, exactly。有时它不会按照你想象的方式发展。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

所以我们谈到了这个一点 stacks about some of these features。你对什么感到兴奋 kind of into what are the customers seeing or what you've been rolling out in anticipation of this。以及我们应该对什么感到兴奋,你认为 going into NFL?

发言人:Jason Robins

我的意思是,Stax 可能是我最兴奋的一个。它是一个 narrative driven parlay builder,基本上它为你提供建议, ways that you can increase your。但是与你的 thesis 一致的事情。所以,你知道,如果你带了一堆 Eagles 球员,也许它只是我认为所有这些球员都会得分或 whatever,你很可能认为 Eagles 会 put up a big point total。但也许你没有看到那个赌注,因为我们有 so many things and it wasn't merchandised。Clearly 我们有一个非常 engaging product for customers because it's building on why they're betting in the first place, which is they have some narrative in their mind about how they think the game is going to go。

我也 really excited about Ghost Leg。Ghost Leg 是 where for the rest of them。所以那应该是。你知道,今年 again 不同的是 those are the things that we're focusing on instead of things that are driving singles mix。并不是我们不关心产品,并且在营销和 merchandising 和所有那些事情 at the same time。With the singular goal。实际上两个目标我们今年有。我不应该说 singular。一个是 driving parlay mix and one is ever in a year going into a season where it's like this is what the mission is。

而且我认为那是部分为什么我们正在 executing on that。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

你提到了 live betting,所以它 already a meaningful portion of your mix。所以我们 kind of think about live in its entirety。不仅仅是在 simple vet platform 上做的事情,而是 micro vetting,如果你愿意的话。但是。Obviously having the optimal and the longest possible window in which the price of bet。但在某些时候,我们可能会在那里达到一些 diminishing returns。所以还有其他功能和其他改进你正在寻找吗?

发言人:Jason Robins

Variety of bets,但 then also one of the biggest challenges with live betting and it's why parlay mix is lower and all that is the speed at which it's happening。所以我们的产品必须 contemplate the game is happening, this is what's happening。我们需要能够 surface in very fast times and get people to engage whatever they wouldn't have time to find。所以很多投资已经进入 machine learning to do products like stacks, but also to be able to really surface the right live bets or something like that。

因为它只是 not the same as pre match where you can sit there and browse around and build your parlays and mess around with it if you want to。It's absolutely essential to drive live betting。所以我认为那是下一个 big vector。你提到了 uptime。我们仍然 obviously working on that but that at some point we're going to have diminishing returns。我认为,你知道, surface,我们所做的是我们 built out a lot of the content and I think the next big unlock is going to be how do we more effectively content that we built out in a much faster time frame。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

我的意思是如果你不介意 take us into the tent a little bit on just what it's like to be sitting at DraftKings headquarters as all now,你知道 when, when does the, when does the amount of activity kind of peak or crest?特别是当你进入一个巨大的 acquisition driven event like you know, like a,你知道, watching。你是,你知道,你是否得到 like,你是否坐在某个 war room 看着事情 just stack up and the action come in?

发言人:Jason Robins

如何,如何是我和你在一起,Sean?我的意思是,嗯,今天我会在我的手机上关注它,但你知道,如果它 like if I were at the office,我们有一个叫做 NOC 的房间,里面有所有相同类型的指标,但通常我从不,我现在 count this many years and it is, it's like Christmas。我感觉 so excited watching the numbers go up。It's thrilling。一切。只是另一件事是它几乎也像 report card time too。所有我们整个夏天和 really all year 一直在努力准备这个时候的东西都在 shipping。

它们有我们想要的效果。有时你 hit and sometimes you miss。但今年我感觉更好。我 more confident in the products that we leased。我们 executing well and we have some really good stuff lined up。而且你知道, obviously 如果你和我的技术团队交谈,这是他们一年中最糟糕的一天,因为他们都 like。创始人 Paul,他负责我们的产品和技术团队,告诉我他一年中最 hated 的日子是 hell 的第一天。我就像,那就像我的最爱。你在说什么?他就像,我可能感觉很好,它可能完美地进行,没有人对我说一句话。

我只会听到如果我 down for five seconds。所以它就像 all downside。不,我们也在 shipping Everything too。当每个人都在汉普顿度假时,我们正在 shipping all our product for NFL season。所以人们也一直在 working too。It's been like a real push to get see all that coming together。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

希望今晚有一个大房间和大量开胃菜和一些披萨,披萨和鸡翅 for the release。但你们在那里已经 stress tested,我肯定。所以我们剩下的那一点时间,我们想进入几个 sort of financial regulatory pieces。让我们从感觉像是一个四个字母单词的三个字母单词开始,即 axe。这一直是每个人在行业中的 moving target,你自己,分析师,投资者。只是 kind of try and lock down that 的一个 frustrating experience。

我们 kind of get to the spring period and we have some new movement it feels like each year。所以 just kind of tell us about how you're thinking about working with states, partnering with states, kind of this balance between the situation we ultimately ended up in Illinois with sort of the more proactive discussions you've had to kind of express the industry's viewpoint around what's the right balance for governments to optimize their revenue。

发言人:Jason Robins

这是一个很好的问题,因为 obviously 这是过去几年 top of mind 的事情,并且我们现在在 many states 运营。所以现实是 not a year is going to go by where we don't have at least one state, probably multiple, that is trying to do something we don't like。而且可能 not a year will go by where the opposite is true too, where there's good things happening in at least one or two states, if not more。那只是我们 being in so many different states now 的现实。

所以一方面,这样运营 kind of nice because it diversifies it。不像英国几年前提高了税收,那是整个国家 at once。我们可能会得到 handful of states, maybe no states,但 not going to likely ever be a situation where the whole country goes up at the same time。所以那 nice to be a little more diversified,但它 also makes it a bit of a game of whack a mole。So much fun or not fun as you have five。想象我 chasing around all this stuff and visiting with politicians and all the things to try to educate and have these conversations。

我会说好消息是 though is that most people get it and I think the candidates for high taxes are kind of,你知道, for the most part, not that there won't be any more tax increases, but for like actual just high taxes。我认为它们 already at pretty high levels。所以,你知道,你能看到一些现在低的州也许,你知道, raising it up a little bit to be more close to where the average is?我不会 surprised to see that。但我不认为有很多,如果有任何州 left that are strong candidates for just outrageously high tax rates like what we have in New York or Illinois。

所以那是好消息。我认为很多那已经 exhausted and I think that more likely than not the next focus will be Igaming for new sources of revenue in some of those states。而且 obviously 那对我们来说是一个 big opportunity。另一件事 too,我想确保 because I know we only have a few more minutes to get into Excited about to start this NFL season is last year, as you know, we acquired Jack Pocket。Jack Pocket had,你知道, the whole thesis was they're going to get these huge jackpots and we're going to acquire all these customers and cross sell and literally hadn't had a single one go anywhere high for the year plus almost year and a half now until now and now we're at a billion plus dollar jackpot。

下一次抽奖在星期六,NFL 的第一个周末 couldn't be better timing。我们在那上的 acquisition numbers are crazy high right now。我们的 cross sell numbers 我今晚会知道更多,但 looking really good going into tonight's game。所以我感觉 like that the whole thesis behind that deal is now finally happening and couldn't be happening at a better time with the start of NFL。所以 hopefully 我们会有一些 good data on that coming out。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

这是一个非常有趣的观点,而且是的,我实际上 logged in in anticipation of this conversation was checking with how Jackpocket is working and integrated with the app。功能特性,它 works phenomenally well。它显示在那里 the billion four 我得到了我的两张你我的两张彩票,所以 $ 4 to the plus until you owe me a billion。但那是 magic number billion dollar jackpot?那是 what puts it。那种 really puts it on the map for。而且那是那种你看到事情 go exponential from an activity base 的地方吗?

发言人:Jason Robins

它只是 amazing。是的。我的意思是那里有 like the psychology of a billion。我认为随着它增长,它上升。我的意思是当它像 750 或 whatever 我们仍然 Seeing this,但一旦它达到十亿,它就像触及一个 whole new level。而且我。所以那 combined with we are so out there marketing, not just that, but sports and everything, is just driving a tremendous amount of activity。因为 obviously 我们 acquiring a lot of customers,但我们也 getting a ton of engagement from existing customers who may be coming on similar to what you just described, to check out the product for NFL and they're like, oh, billion dollar jackpot, I can buy a couple tickets here。

而且我们刚刚 recently too 完成了那个 integration,所以那 also worked out very fortunately, timing wise, that was done really in the last month or so。所以 kind of click timing wise and。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

Keep me honest here,但我相信当你登录 DraftKings 应用程序时,会出现一个小浮动窗口。就像有一个十亿美元,有一个巨大的彩票链接到 jackpocket 应用程序,然后你就去了。

发言人:Jason Robins

Exactly。因为我们能够及时进行 integration for this。我们计划的很多 cross sell,这在以前是不可能的,现在正在 executed because there's a lot of things that have to do with linking data and linking accounts that are allowing us to target and get people to easily convert。那 would not have been possible before that integration project。当我说 integration 时,我指的是技术 integration。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

在那个 integration 方面,还有更多 big milestones 吗?就最终 separate kind of button or menu at the bottom on the app 而言?那不是必要的吗?这是 app identity 的正确平衡,如果你愿意的话?我们在 Shared Wallet 方面处于什么位置?

发言人:Jason Robins

所以现在好的是 with the tech integration,我们可以 easily do any of that。就前端 stuff 而言,Shared Wallet 是 a little bit more work,但 on its way,我认为那 largely it's done,但 still there's some work to clean up some things there。但前端 stuff is super simple and it's more about testing into it。我们正在尝试平衡的事情之一是 how do you want to。我们有多个产品。你何时以及如何在应用程序中 feature different things?Obviously when you've got a billion doll jackpot,你想做那个。

但我们也有 NFL 开始 happening。所以你如何平衡那个?然后 igaming 团队就像,等一下,所有这些新人进来,我们 want you cross selling them to igaming in the states that have igaming。所以它 definitely a balancing act。我们只是 trying to be extremely data driven and testing driven with it。而且你知道,nowadays with the way that we've implemented a lot of things through the data science team,我们可以 rapidly conduct tests and not have to like set each thing up,你知道, individually。

所以我们应该能够 generate some pretty quick insights。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

所以去年,如果我可以,并且我只是想触及 sort of as we think about taxes and this will bridge me into margins。我们或投资者是否应该考虑在未来时期的一些 headwind,有点像围绕 midpoint for broader guidance 的 volatility point?这是我们应该更 proactively 思考的事情吗?我的意思是,最终你仍然会 scale and leverage the business,然后从那个,无论那个答案是什么,过渡到你的 long term margin goals and what are we able to achieve here?

发言人:Jason Robins

所以我认为 y。是的,应该有,但我相信我们将能够通过其他方式抵消它,并且我们将最终达到我们相信我们将达到的 30 加 percent EBITDA margins。我认为我们最近开始相信会帮助的事情之一是,如果我们最终因为税收而失去几个点的毛利润,是我们的固定成本增长。特别是在过去一年。我们已经看到了 tremendous momentum with an AI first mindset。而且 Alan,我们的 CFO 基本上制定了一个政策 about of AI engineers。你明年不能雇佣任何人,除非你已经证明你不能用 AI 代理做同样的工作。

所以它真的改变了人们思考的方式,就像我下一批要管理的团队将是 AI 代理,而不是我要雇佣的一群人。而且我认为那可能 potentially have real meaningful impact to our fixed cost profile several years out。然后也有其他一些事情 too。可能最大的一个我认为比我们之前在投资者日所说的有 upside,是我们对结构性持有的长期看法。我认为我们现在 much more bullish on it now than we were at our last investor day。

我们只是有 much more data and evidence that there's a higher ceiling than maybe what we had previously modeled。所以我认为 between those two things 我们应该,我的意思是如果你想 breakdown the model,我会说是的,技术上我会假设 maybe some gross margin headwind from some tax increases,但我认为一旦你得到 bottom line,它 elsewhere 被抵消。所以我不认为它 actually impacts things。而且如果有的话,我认为我们在 EBITDA margin 上有一点 upside。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

而不是 too about accounting nuance 让你难堪,但是当你考虑工程节省和一些你能够用,你知道,agentic AI 做的事情时,那更多的是在 gross, the gross margin side 上的抵消,还是 P and T cost?

发言人:Jason Robins

如何那 probably more fixed cost?它不只是。它不是。事情是它 not limited to engineering。它是整个公司。我的意思是,你知道你的客户服务,你有所以你 have processes that are being run manually throughout the entire company that we are rapidly converting to agent driven processes now。而这只是开始。我的意思是这 going to only from here it gets better and better I think as the technology improves and as we figure out more applications of it。但它是整个公司。

我们有 biz dev,人们现在使用 AI 写 RFPs。就像 just work that used to take hours and hours, sometimes days, is being done in a fraction of the time with less people。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

只是 really hoping 我的老板没有太仔细听,因为我觉得研究分析师可能是那份失业名单上的下一个。

发言人:Jason Robins

我认为我们 all eventually on that list today。我认为你今天还有一点时间。Awesome。

发言人:Shaun Kelley

谢谢你,Jason。真的很感激你这样做。谢谢你能来,Chad。