Twelve years ago, Aaron Speach was just another victim of the financial crisis. The tightening of student loans had frozen him out of law school, so the amiable, bearded Californian turned to entrepreneurship. Little did he know that he would establish one of the hardest-charging companies in two of the hottest businesses on Wall Street: esports and betting.
How It All Started
In college, as Speach was preparing to apply to law schools, he began hearing whispers about StarCraft competitions in South Korea. He was no longer a gamer but found himself addicted to watching others play competitively. “They got really organized,” he recalls. “I just knew that it was about to take off seeing the arenas they were competing in and the sponsorships that were coming on board.”
