Expert speaker session · Off the record
From working in the business to working on the business. Tom Galanis, 16 months in.
Tom Galanis built Tag Media over 17 years with no investors, no board and no one to answer to. It gave him freedom. It also made him the single point of failure in his own business. Sixteen months into the Mastermind, he gave the room an unfiltered account: scaling from four people to 35 and making an exit decision he had been avoiding for months.
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“It is so refreshing to finally see and hear someone openly talk about the real challenges of leading a business. This is the kind of stuff you can't get at any conference.”
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About the speaker
Tom Galanis has been in iGaming since 2005. He started in the affiliate team at what is now BetVictor, moved to Bet365 at 26, and decided he would never work for someone else again. He founded Tag Media in 2009 and has run it as a bootstrapped business ever since. Today he leads two businesses: Tag Media, an outsourced affiliate management agency with 17 years of trading, and First Foot Games, a platform connecting game studios with affiliates through a layer of marketing intelligence. Tag Media recently launched an affiliate network and an AI affiliate management assistant. Tom joined iGaming Leader in March 2024.
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