2021-12-04 19:34:24
My name is Dr Rushindra Sinha, I'm 30 years old and a Doctor by Profession but a Gamer by passion, I played my first video game at the age of 3 years old on a black and white computer and absolutely fell in love. At the age of 10 yrs I was introduced to Lan Cafe's for the first time and was blown away. I competed in my First CS Lan Tournament in 2001 and haven't looked back since. Competed in CS then Dota after which moved on to a popular MMORPG called Ragnarok Online and spent my early teens playing the game, became among the top players on the Indian Server so started emailing the devs and publishers changes and recommendations on improving the experience for someone like me who spent hours playing the game. I'm sure publishers get millions of such emails everyday because none of my emails were ever responded to, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and taught myself programming to reverse engineer the game. Used an open platform backend engine and built the entire front end with a few friends and turned it into the number 1 online private MMORPG server in the world for 18 months straight till we got acquired in 2009 by an Australian Company. I was already in Med School when this happened (I was doing this as a side gig).
Now I come from a family of doctors (theres 26 doctors in my family) so I never really thought of any other career besides growing up and taking over my parents chain of hospitals in India (so I closely worked with them growing up and understood a lot of about scaling a business - we even had a round of PE funding for the hospital chain but thats another story all together). So while I was in medical school I was spending more time on the computer doing freelance web & app dev work than in the hospital so I knew I wanted to do something in the tech space.
At the end of 2013 just as I got done with Med School, I went to San Francisco, lived at this place called the Hacker House with a bunch of start up kids and people that worked at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, Dropbox etc a lot of them had their own startups and were raising funding so I got to see what that entire world was like first hand. This is also where I was introduced to the Crypto Space very early on when one of my roommates got me my first bitcoin at $200 (2013). I was fortunate enough to even cross paths with Vitalik while he was building the Ethereum Blockchain (he crashed on the couch at our hacker house for about 6 weeks) although our paths didn’t collide as much as I'd have liked, watching him coding while sitting at the kitchen counter for 16 hours a day got me interested enough in the space to start learning more about it.
I then worked with a bunch of early stage startups and finally moved to Los Angeles with a few friends to work on our own social media startup which had Stan Lee as one of our users (different story for another time) I eventually sold my stake and exited that company in early 2015 after which I went General Assembly's WDI program to get formal programming experience and then to Stanford Graduate School of Business after which I moved back to Mumbai and started Global Esports in 2017 when I saw the space booming after Dota 2 announced TI7 with a $25 million dollar prize pool.
Global Esports currently holds the Fortnite World Record for highest score at the FNWC Qualifiers, Manage 2 Overwatch World Cup Teams (Team India & Team Singapore), GE has had some of the best CSGO, Dota 2, Fifa, Overwatch, Fortnite, Rainbow Six Siege, Pubg, BGMI, FreeFire, Valorant players in the past with teams and bootcamps across South Korea, Singapore, London, New York, with our current Flagship Training Facility and Production / Broadcast Studio in Mumbai, India.
Global Esports by itself is another similar story (as in its as long if not longer so i'll cut that part super short and you can let me know if you're interested then i'll share it)
We were the first esports org in South Asia to raise VC funding and now we’re growing fairly well.
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