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A Lottery Pool.A Community Mission.A Regulatory Battle.
Meet Joseph Salmond, the senior engineer behind Looty Pool, and discover the story of a technology platform built around bringing people together, supporting communities, and navigating a regulatory challenge in New Jersey.
“Let’s Win The Lottery Together!”
Joseph Salmond
Founder of Looty Pool
Joseph Salmond
Founder of Looty Pool
The Founder
Joseph Salmond — Founder of Looty Pool
Joseph Salmond’s path to technology did not begin in a typical place. Before engineering, he worked in the entertainment industry at Bad Boy Entertainment, during the era of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs.
He went on to build a career as a senior engineer, gaining extensive professional technology experience. He then put that experience to work on his own ideas as an independent software creator and entrepreneur.
Looty Pool is the result: a platform he created around a simple, familiar tradition — people pooling together to share in the excitement of a lottery drawing. It is part of the broader Looty technology ecosystem he built, alongside the Looty Foundation.
Entertainment industry
Former employee of Bad Boy Entertainment, during the era of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs.
Engineering
Senior engineer with extensive professional technology experience.
Entrepreneur
Independent software creator and entrepreneur.
Builder
Creator of Looty Pool and the broader Looty technology ecosystem.
We’re not just playing the lottery — we’re bringing people together, supporting nonprofit organizations, and giving back to our communities.
The Innovation
Why Joseph Created Looty Pool
A digital take on the office lottery pool, explained in a minute.
For years, office lottery pools have brought coworkers, friends and families together. Someone collects the money, buys the tickets, and everyone shares the excitement of the drawing.
Joseph built Looty Pool to make that kind of group participation easier to organize and more accessible, with the details in one app instead of scattered across messages and spreadsheets.
Supported games
- Powerball
- Mega Millions
- NY Lotto
- NJ Pick 6
“Let’s Win The Lottery Together!”
Looty Pool app screenshot
What members can do
Join available pools
Browse open pools for supported games and join before the next drawing.
Organize private pools
Set up a pool for friends, family or coworkers.
Track drawings
Follow upcoming drawings and results for each pool.
See participation and tickets
View group participation and the ticket information for the pools you join.
Play together
Share the excitement of every drawing with the rest of the pool.
The Community Mission · Looty Foundation
Giving Losing Tickets a Chance to Help Others.
Every lottery pool ends with losing tickets. Looty Foundation is the community-focused part of the Looty ecosystem, created to give non-winning tickets a second purpose instead of letting them be thrown away or forgotten.
Looty Foundation helps support nonprofit organizations through the value generated from Looty Pool losing lottery tickets. As Looty Pool grows, the goal is for that support to reach more nonprofits, community programs and local causes.
How Looty Pool and Looty Foundation work together
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Play through Looty Pool
Members join lottery pools and participate in group play.
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Losing tickets get a second purpose
Value from non-winning Looty Pool tickets is directed to charitable support through the Looty Foundation.
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Nonprofits receive support
Completed donations to nonprofit organizations are recorded on the Foundation’s public Impact Dashboard.
Completed and verifiable
Completed nonprofit donations are recorded and published on the Looty Foundation Impact Dashboard.
View the Impact DashboardLooty Foundation sponsored the 3rd Annual MS Strong Sneaker Ball, hosted by Angels Hearts for Hope Foundation on October 17, 2026, in Queens, New York.
Read the Foundation’s announcement
Growing Our Impact
- Looty Pool members vote in the app to help choose which nonprofits receive support.
- Every new pool and every new member helps grow the support Looty Foundation can give.
- Our goal is to reach more causes across food, education, shelter, veterans, youth programs and community outreach as Looty Pool grows.
Looty Foundation is the authoritative source for its programs, donations and nonprofit recipients. See lootyfoundation.org/nonprofits.
The Regulatory Dispute
The Regulatory Battle: A New Jersey Entrepreneur’s Story.
The question
“Is a digital office pool the same as selling lottery tickets?”
The New Jersey Lottery has challenged Looty Pool’s business model. According to correspondence Looty Pool received, the agency issued a final agency decision and a cease-and-desist order. The agency’s position is that the business model is unlawful.
Joseph Salmond disputes that characterization. His position is that Looty Pool was inspired by the traditional office-pool model, in which a group pools its money to share tickets, rather than being designed as a conventional lottery ticket retailer.
The matter has not been resolved. Looty Pool invites reporters to examine the underlying facts and records and to hear both perspectives, including the New Jersey Lottery’s.
The New Jersey Lottery’s position
The agency says Looty Pool’s business model is unlawful and, according to the correspondence Looty Pool received, issued a final agency decision and cease-and-desist order.
Looty Pool’s position
The founder disputes that characterization. He says Looty Pool was inspired by the traditional office pool, not built as a conventional lottery ticket retailer.
Reporters examining the dispute can request background and documentation from the media contact, and are encouraged to seek the New Jersey Lottery’s perspective directly.
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Short founder biography
Joseph Salmond is the founder of Looty Pool. A former employee of Bad Boy Entertainment during the era of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, he built a career as a senior engineer and became an independent software creator and entrepreneur. He created Looty Pool and the broader Looty technology ecosystem, including the Looty Foundation.
About Looty Pool
Looty Pool is a mobile app that helps people join and organize lottery pools with friends, family, coworkers and other members. Members can join available pools, organize private pools, follow drawings, and view group participation and ticket information. Looty Pool is part of the Looty ecosystem, which includes the Looty Foundation, created to give losing lottery tickets a second purpose by supporting nonprofit organizations.
Interested in the Looty Pool Story?
We welcome inquiries from journalists, reporters, producers, and news organizations interested in learning more about Looty Pool, the founder’s journey, our charitable mission, and the New Jersey regulatory dispute.
Joseph Salmond
Founder, Looty Pool
- Websites
- lootypool.comlootyfoundation.org
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Be Part of the Mission
Help Support Looty Pool!
Join the Looty Pool Community!
Believe in bringing people together, innovation, and giving back to our communities? Support the Looty Pool mission by downloading our app and becoming part of our growing online office pool community.
- Bringing people together
- Innovation
- Giving back
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Available Lottery Pools
Join a pool before the next drawing.
Download Looty Pool to join the next lottery pool.
