Rahul Sood, Founder of Unikrn: E-Sports will be Bigger than Traditional Gaming

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, an E-Sports startup backed by the likes of Mark Cuban, Tim Draper, Brock Pierce, and Pantera Capital. In this conversation, Rahul and Anthony Pompliano discuss Rahul's experience selling his first company to HP, his time launching and leaving Microsoft's VC arm, and why E-Sports will be bigger than traditional sports. ----- BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. BlockWorks Group hosts events for Family Offices, HNWI's, VC's, Hedge Funds, lawyers, and accountants that are already operating in or looking to learn more about blockchain. BlockWorks Group also hosts intimate, private dinners for projects in the blockchain space looking to raise capital. To learn more visit http://blockworksgroup.io/ Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute read. https://offthechain.substack.com/

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Popliano. Most of you know me as Popp. You're listening to Season
0:06.9	2 of Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:14.9	Rahul Sude is the CEO of Unicorn, an esports startup backed by the likes of Mark Cuban, Tim Draper, Brock Pierce, and Pantera Capital.
0:24.1	In this conversation, we discussed Raoul's experience selling his first company to HP,
0:28.7	his time launching and leading Microsoft's VC arm, and why esports will be bigger than traditional
0:33.8	sports.
0:34.7	I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as well.
0:39.2	Before we get started, I want to talk about one of our sponsors, BlockFi. These guys are doing
0:43.6	really interesting work in crypto lending. What they allow you to do is keep your crypto, put it up as
0:49.0	collateral, and receive a U.S. dollar loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10 million,
0:56.1	and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. You should visit blockfi.com
1:01.1	slash pomp. Again, that's blockfi.com slash pomp. Again, one more time, type it in blockfi.com
1:06.7	slash pomp if you'd like to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it.
1:12.0	Definitely do it.
1:15.7	Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
1:24.8	All opinions expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management.
1:28.0	You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as
1:33.8	an expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only. All right, guys,
1:41.1	we're here with Rahul. Thank you so much, sir. I'm excited about this conversation because you guys have a working product, which is somewhat rare. And you're one of the first founders with an actual token that we've had on the podcast. So welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. For sure. All right. How about just a quick background on you personally, right? How do you get to crypto and e-sports?
2:02.5	Sure. Well, I've been a long-time entrepreneur in the video game space. I actually started
2:08.1	the world's first PC gaming hardware manufacturer. We used to build PCs specific to play
2:14.2	video games on. And I ended up selling it to HP many years later. And so I've been in
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