Ann Hand: CEO of Super League Gaming | #ThePlaybook 145

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ann Hand, CEO at Super League Gaming, talks about her early career, working for “traditional” big enterprise companies in oil and gas before venturing into the startup space, eventually landing as the CEO of the first esports company to trade on Wall Street. Hand and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, discuss how they learned about the vast opportunities in the esports space and explain what esports are to people who don’t understand the appeal of competitive video games. The pair also discuss the importance of creating an accepting community for the 2.6 billion amateur gamers in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Playbook I have Anne Han the chairman and CEO of Super League Gaming and we're going to talk about the difference between working for an enterprise and working for a startup.
0:10.0	Learn this all and more on the playbook.
0:13.0	This is entrepreneurs the playbook,
0:15.0	where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes,
0:19.0	celebrities, and entrepreneurs
0:21.0	to talk about their personal and professional
0:23.7	playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.
0:29.2	I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.
0:35.0	This is Dave Melzer with Octoores, the Playbook,
0:37.0	and it is an e-sport edition of the Playbook.
0:40.0	I'm so excited to have one of the innovators, the CEO and Chairman of Super League Gaming right here in Santa Monica and Hand.
0:49.0	And you are an ultra entrepreneur.
0:52.0	And that's why I wanted to have this interview because so many people, Steve Jobs told me
0:56.6	when I was at the Silicon Valley, he said, Dave, you cannot connect the dots forward.
1:01.2	And I connected the dots of how does someone end up, you know, the CEO and
1:05.6	chairman of really the first public e-sports company. And while most people don't
1:10.9	even know what e-sports is still, which we'll get involved with because I love to get your definition.
1:15.0	But connecting the dots backwards, there is an extraordinary background just briefly,
1:21.0	because I know you're very versatile.
1:22.0	Can you explain to the entrepreneurs out there? just briefly because I know you're very versatile.
1:22.8	Can you explain to the entrepreneurs out there
1:25.0	how you end up in that great position
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