ESPN's Tilt integration achieved record feature adoption for the sports network
James Beshara · a16z Podcast | When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide · Jan 2, 2019 · at 24:11
James Beshara, CEO of Tilt, shares feedback from ESPN's CTO regarding the user adoption rate of Tilt's payment collection feature within ESPN Fantasy Football.
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“I think the CTO was on y'all's side was telling us that it's one of the highest maybe highest uptick in a brand new feature that they've seen.”
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