Kevin Chou

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Kevin Chou is an American video game developer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and CEO of the video game company Kabam . Chou is also a co-owner of Generation Gaming , which owns the Overwatch League team Seoul Dynasty .

Life

Chou grew up in Moorpark , CA, a suburb of Los Angeles and was raised by Taiwanese immigrants. Chou graduated from UC Berkeley and started on Wall Street , where he joined Deutsche Bank to advise public technology companies on M&A and finance. In 2006, Chou co-founded Watercooler, Inc. with three co-founders , trying to build a social network for sports, television, and movie fans that eventually became a platform for fantasy sports. When the company did not get any notable attention, Chou pivote the company from fantasy sports to Facebook games and released the game Kingdoms of Camelot in 2009 . In 2010 the company was renamed Kabam. In 2017, Kabam was split up and sold to Netmarble and FoxNext for US $ 800 to 900 million.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam Lashinsky: The most exciting mobile gaming company you've never heard of. Fortune , December 12, 2013, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Kevin Chou at Crunchbase. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  3. ^ Connie Loizos: Gaming company Kabam's roller coaster ride to an $ 800 million exit. TechCrunch , accessed February 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Dean Takahashi: Kabam receives $ 800 million bid for its best asset: its Vancouver studio. VentureBeat, October 18, 2016, accessed February 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chou, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video game developer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century