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...wasn't specifically looking for an idea, but I was somewhat dissatisfied with the way that betting was moving to the Internet; it wasn't happening in the way that I would have expected it to happen, or that I would have hoped it was going to happen. You could basically see a lot of bookmakers moving their offerings from the High [Main] Street, and recreating exactly the same offering on the Internet. That just didn't feel right, it wasn't giving any extra value to the punter. It wasn't maximizing the value of the Internet...
...mechanism for making it happen was my original idea. I guess I would say it was a reasonably straight-forward idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
...life, I guess, the first six months of Betfair, which were fairly high-octane stuff. We would have some disagreements, we'd shout and scream and that sort of thing - I certainly did. But it was incredibly exciting, watching the numbers go up, and watching the business actually happen...
...Hara’s improvement did not happen by chance. His teammate Kramer admires his good work ethic and sees O’Hara’s success this weekend as hard work paying...
...comments ricocheted at supersonic speed around the Pentagon and across broader defense networks, as officers - and contractors - tried to parse their implications. His bottom line: The Air Force ought to be less concerned with buying more $350 million F-22 fighters for use in future wars that may never happen, and do more to deliver what is needed to fight the wars currently under way "while their outcome may still be in doubt...