Nik Bonaddio is an American Internet entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of the sports analytics site numberFire. In 2017, he was named Chief Product Officer at FanDuel, who acquired numberFire in September 2015.
Career
After graduation, Bonaddio began work at Yahoo! as a software engineer. Bonaddio founded
numberFire in 2009, after a successful appearance on ABC's
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with
Regis Philbin.
During the show's 10th anniversary run, Bonaddio won $100,000, which was then used to found numberFire.
Since its founding, numberFire has grown to over 600,000 subscribers and has gained recognition in the marketplace for accurate predictions, including correctly predicting winners of the Super Bowl and the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
numberFire was purchased by FanDuel in September 2015. Terms were not disclosed.
After spending three years as the Chief Product Officer at FanDuel, Bonaddio left in 2020 to start BigBrain, an online gaming company.
Education
Bonaddio was raised in Wexford, Pennsylvania, a suburb in the North Hills neighborhood of
Pittsburgh, and graduated from nearby North Allegheny Senior High School. During his time at North Allegheny, he was featured multiple times in local newspapers for awards received for his online design collective, Lockjaw and was active in the soccer and tennis programs.
He received a B.S. in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon University in Information Systems, followed by a M.S. in Information Systems Management in 2005.
Awards
A prominent member of the emerging NYC tech scene, Bonaddio has been featured in a variety of publications and conferences. In addition to routinely contributing to
ESPN, he has been featured in
Sports Illustrated in 2011,
in 2012, and Under30CEO and
Entrepreneur magazine
amongst others in 2013.
Other ventures
In addition to his professional life, Bonaddio is also a highly-ranked and successful high-stakes daily fantasy sports player. In 2022, he finished 3rd in FanDuel's World Fantasy Baseball Championship, and 1st in FanDuel's World Fantasy Football Championship. In March 2023, Bonaddio also finished 1st in FanDuel's World Fantasy Basketball Championship, becoming the first non-professional in the industry's history to win back-to-back live final titles, as well as the first to finish in the top three in three straight finals.
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