David Chen, age 43, a father, investor, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur that has worked on over 500 transactions with Fortune 500 companies now tackles his newest project; bringing esports to the college and provide students a new route to get to college as well as solidifying sports at the college level professionally and successfully by launching the NACL (North American Collegiate League).
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David Chen has been an entrepreneur since his college dropout at the age of 20. David Chen has wanted to make a difference in so many aspects of life from clothing brands to now mentoring young individuals about life to show them how to approach life positively. Now wants to help individuals with a new way to get to college through video games. In my conversations with him, he was crediting his entrepreneurship to his drive. He started from nothing and today has a team active around the clock constantly working. In his own words, he only takes one day off a month.
David Chen has been a prominent figure in the esports community as he is an investor and chairman of FaZe Clan which holds over 30 million followers worldwide and is worth over 10 million dollars. The esports community is one of the biggest growing markets in the world and David Chen recognized that and his trying to tap into the greatest demographic of video game players worldwide, college students. As the NACL webpage describes it as an “unexplored niche in the esports market”.
The NACL is an America-based non-profit esports and entertainment organization that hosts video game tournaments and league play for universities and colleges with scholarship prizes to help the student and/or the players. David Chen and the NACL incorporated broadcasting into their business to stream the most engaging games and create personable content with the collegiate athletes to create an avenue for sponsors to keep the league running. Also, David Chen has an incredible trait of speaking and selling ideas as he has been able to get ambassadors to this brand such as ex-professional athletes such as Brian Urlacher (Chicago Bears linebacker) to Esport pros such as Pavan Lakhat (Professional Madden player). David Chen can find niches within industries and surround himself with people and organizations to turn his idea into a reality with little to no investment from himself.
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This is a wonderful example of a young entrepreneur innovating in many areas within a subject that interests and inspires him to do more. You did a great job of highlighting David Chen’s many different avenues of inspiring young people to pursue their passions. The balance of detail and specificity contrasts well with the summarizing writing methods that you used. Chen has quite an extensive profile which to some would complicate writing about him, however, you were able to keep to the central theme of “his drive” in the forefront of each piece of information you gave. E-sports are very interesting and not super well known about among the general public. David Chen is a true entrepreneur and innovator. You not only told me his story, but you taught me about E-sports as a whole, and where they fit into society.