Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Real Talk with Zubi podcast.

Today we are in studio here in Dubai and I am with entrepreneur and the King of Gaming.

Carlos Rodriguez, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for having me.

Awesome, Carlos. I know who you are, but for my listeners who are not familiar with you and your background,

please introduce yourself. So like you said, they do like to call me the king of gaming.

That means I was in the industry of video games for a long time, yeah?

I'm 35 now. I was there since I'm 15, so first a professional player was one of the best

first players to get paid, to pay professionally.

And then I built the largest company in esports, which is competitive video games.

I still own it to this day, But since about four years ago, I devoted literally all my time and effort and focus into

education, actually, which is really my purpose, to teach those that want to learn.

Awesome.

Well, crazily enough, I think I first got to know you not through

the world of gaming, but actually through the quote unquote cancellation. Oh, yes. And it was one of

those weird ones where an incident happens and then I kind of I'm tracing backwards to work out what is even

going on here. But before we get into the details of that, because I do want to talk about it,

but before we get into that, tell me how you got into gaming in your teens and doing it professionally.

You know, I've always been competitive. I always played football. I always did

like judo, swimming, paddle, stuff like this, you know, in Spain. Paddle is a national sport,

as you might know. And yeah, the moment I realized that you could just click two buttons and

play competitively against anybody around the world, that felt very interesting

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