Chess.com

“We recently launched Gambit at Gambit.com, which is our poker site... we're doing poker in a different way too. We're bringing the chess playbook which is like poker for ratings.”

“Chess.com never raised primary capital — all investor activity was secondary share purchases. This forced a discipline that became a structural advantage: grow only as fast as cash allows, build culture slowly, and avoid the pressure to chase growth metrics at the expense of product quality.”