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The Eavesdrop Podcast

Jason Lake | Founder & CEO of compLexity

The Eavesdrop Podcast

HECZ

Video Games, Leisure, Technology

52K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Considered one of the founding fathers of American esports, having established Complexity in 2003'ish, the dude has been around, the name Jason Lake is synonymous with NA Counterstrike, but the expansion of coL would eventually lead him and his team to a Call of Duty world championship, there his esports history that I personally don't know, and Jason is the right guy to put it in perspective for me.

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode number 14 of the eavesdrop podcast.

0:13.2

Today a very close friend of mine

0:15.6

have known this legend for close to I'd say five years.

0:19.7

Yeah, something like that.

0:21.8

But Jason Lake, obviously a man that needs no introduction in the world of

0:24.4

e-sports he's been around he's super super ogy what year did you start

0:28.4

2003 is when I officially started 2003 so you beat me by six years yeah I'm old I was

0:35.0

I was in 2003 so you beat me by six years I always do that math because you know I think it's important and I wasn't playing video games in 2003 no games.

0:42.0

Oh really yeah I started playing call of duty in 2009 2003 no games. No games. Oh, really?

0:43.0

Yeah, I started playing Call of Duty in 2000 and like towards the end of 2005 on the first release and

0:48.3

that is the only time that I ever touched the video game aside from high school Zelda and the first the first

0:54.7

resident evil which is to me still one of the best experiences I ever had is a

0:59.0

video game player. Anyway so how did you start like in the industry like what were you doing and you know

1:06.4

I always grew up being pretty competitive and as you know played a lot of different traditional sports.

1:14.8

In the 80s if you remember it was kind of a different culture than today.

1:18.8

You kind of had your jocks and your nerds.

1:20.9

That's why they made the move.

1:21.8

Remember that Revenge of the Nirds movie?

1:23.2

Yeah, we're Boegov back then. Yeah. So I was kind of a bit of a crossover which was pretty rare back then. I love video games. I love like computers. I had the Apple computer when it first came out so I was kind of a

1:33.5

nerd but I was also a football player. So I was really into competition, I was really

1:37.6

into video games. I went to college and after that I went to law school and

1:41.3

after I finished law school I was just kind of

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