Tenure ≠ best interest

Remove “multiple years in lottery” as a hard requirement — and watch who still shows up with working product.

Someone who built serious software outside this industry can still serve your players better than a résumé full of the same conferences, the same panels, and the same “we’ve always done it this way.”

Years prove you’ve been around. Not that you build what’s best.

Folks who built some of your largest competition had no experience in “gambling.” They had experience shipping software people actually use — under App Store rules, under real latency, under real churn.

Tenure filters feel safe in an RFP. They also filter out the builders who never needed permission from the old room to invent the next one.

Public gaming has real constraints: responsible play, jurisdiction, procurement, trust. Those constraints are why the work is hard — not why only insiders get to try.

Lottery Innovation Summit is built for evidence over pedigree: real US lottery problems, built solutions, live demos. If tenure is your only trust signal, you’re optimizing for familiarity — not for players.

Ask a sharper question in the next brief: who can show working product under our rules? Not who has the longest lottery CV.