Betfair Facts

When was Betfair launched?
June 2000.

How many customers does Betfair have?
Just over 1,000,000.

What is its weekly turnover?
£50m/week.

Who is the main owner of Betfair?
Andrew Black, view an interview over at Startups.co.uk.

Behind the Betfair.com website
Betfair has 100 in house programmers who look after about 1,000,000 lines of code. Betfair’s main systems are based on Oracle’s PL/SQL language, but it also has systems written in Java, SQL Server, C++ and .net.

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