Waylon Ian Chin is the CEO of First Serve Partners, a venture capital firm which consists of business leaders, influencers, and athletes. First Serve Partners invests into sports, media, and entertainment to find what is the next big thing for millennials and Gen-Zers. Waylon spent some of his younger years in Singapore where he started playing tennis. When he moved back to the United States he was the #1 ranked youth tennis player. He began playing professionally at the age of 15 and played at the University of Miami (FL.).
Before First Serve Partners, he co-founded the GR-8 Group which invests in the luxury and high-end travel industries. Once he founded First Serve, he completed on of his biggest investments into Splyce, a big eSports organization. Waylon is a very innovative person as he finds the next big things in an industry and invests in them early. Waylon feels that eSports is the next big industry and the eSports players are some of the best athletes in the world. He brings his ideas to life through studying the patterns of markets and industries throughout years to see which have the potential of growth. Things to take away from Waylon and his strategies are to never pass up on the industries that people look down on as one day they may be the next big thing in the world. Also, as an entrepreneur, it does not hurt to take knowledge and experience from your personal life and to apply it to your thought process for entrepreneurial endeavors.
It’s really important to use practical knowledge in modern companies.