Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

Brought you by Stanford E-Corner.

On this episode, we're joined by Delane Parnell.

Delane is the founder and CEO of Play Verses,

which is building the infrastructure for the

fast-growing field of high school and college e-sports. Here's Delane. I'm Ravi Balani, and I'd like to

welcome you to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar presented by the Stanford Technology Ventures

Program, the Entrepreneurship Center in Stanford's School of Engineering and Basis, the Business

Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. I'm a lecturer in the MSN department and the

director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups. So Delane, just to kick things off,

since all of us are not familiar with e-sports, can you start by explaining a bit about what PlayVerses does for those who haven't heard about PlayVerses yet?

Yeah, and so PlayV versus is a Los Angeles-based esports startup that has built the official statewide and regional leagues around high school e-sports and the official national leagues for many games at the collegiate level.

So we power high school and college leagues for a bunch of different video games.

And what that looks like is, you know, kids are able to play a League of Legends, let's say,

on behalf of their school or high school or college for a state or national championship, behalf of their school or their high school or college

for a state or national championship, depending on if it's the high school or college level,

as they would basketball or football. And that's all powered through software that we build and

play versus. Isn't that cool? And this is not just small local sports, even though it is

creating this amazing community.

It's also a big business, Dilling.

So how much have you guys have also raised, it's a venture-backed business, just so people understand.

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