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Great Expectations
from SiGMA Issue 16
by SiGMA Group
TOBIAS REGENSTAM, HEAD OF COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AT GREAT.COM AND PARTNER AT BRAVIOS BROKERAGE SHARES HIS TWO CENTS ON HOW HE PLANS TO HELP MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
THE ONLINE GAMBLING INDUSTRY HAS OFTEN HAD TO BATTLE A NEGATIVE REPUTATION, CAN THE GREAT.COM BUSINESS MODEL RESCUE IT?
The simple answer is; “We believe so”. Our mission at Great has actually nothing to do with gambling. Gambling is only the venue where we can generate the most amount of cash and then move that cash to where it does the most good in the world. If anything, we are trying to make the casino industry smaller and are actively working on our website to ensure problem gamblers find help instead of a casino.
We believe that Great.com will, thanks to our 50-year plan, be able to provide the players with the best value possibly and we aim to do that by helping those who need help, undergoing in depth analyses of the casinos, and resisting selling our opinions.On top of all this, if you are going to play at a casino, by going via Great.com you make sure that if you should lose money, part of that loss will go to making the world a better place.
WHAT CHARITABLE CAUSES IS GREAT.COM WORKING ON RIGHT NOW?
We focus on making sure that each euro is spent as efficiently as possible and sometimes that is quite unorthodox. For example in our top 5 donation organisations, €2.2m has been given to the founders pledge.
Founders pledge is an organisation that is generating more funds for the causes that do the most to save the planet. One way this is done is by collecting “founders” or high networth individuals and getting them to donate “match-donations”. We sponsored one event last month with €100.000 that managed to generate another €200.000 in the room - thus achieving a €300.000 impact for different high-impact causes.
GIVEN TO: TOTAL GIVEN:
Founders Pledge 2 216 735,49€
LoveNepal 95 000,00€
YoungDrive 27 550,00€
IT for children 23 750,00€
Clean Air Task Force 21 883,77€
THE CURRENT PANDEMIC HAS HAD A MASSIVE IMPACT ON THE WAY COMPANIES WORK, AND HAS ALMOST CERTAINLY SERVED AS A CATALYST FOR THE RISE IN DIGITAL NOMADS. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON WORKING REMOTELY?
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