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What stands out

Jason Robins called the fall football season "like our holiday season," which is a useful moment of clarity: DraftKings' business is intensely calendar-driven, and how a company performs when demand is highest reveals more than quarterly cheerleading. In the Schwab Network interview he walked through operational prep and argued that prediction markets are reshaping product choices as sports attention fragments across more events and formats. For investors, the clip is a reminder to watch whether peak-season engineering, promotions, and new prediction-market features translate into better retention and margins, or simply bigger but more expensive spikes in handle.