Our Biggest Failure Is My Proudest Moment

David Carrion started as a dealer on Margarita Island, Venezuela in 1995. Thirty years later, he's Chief Strategy Officer at Gaming1, having run live poker events for PokerStars, launched a casino from scratch in his hometown, and led a four-state US market entry.

In this episode of the iGaming Leader podcast, David walks us through four transitions every leader has to make: from doing to letting do, from knowing everything to knowing very little, from argument to context, and from the smaller to the bigger picture.

In this episode:

00:00 Guest intro

00:03 Dealing cards at 18 on Margarita Island

00:06 Running Casino Buenos Aires for 21 million people

00:10 Launching Casino Asturias from zero

00:16 The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure

00:21 What PokerStars got right about culture

00:36 The PCA 10th anniversary trying to break 10,000 players

00:44 Launching in four US states as a relatively small Belgian company

00:46 The strongest stretch of leadership I have ever went through