Kevin Chou
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.jpg) Kevin Chou in 2014 |
Kevin Chou is an American video game developer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and CEO of the Canadian videogame development company Kabam. Chou is also a co-owner of Gen.G Esports, which owned the now defunct Overwatch League team Seoul Dynasty.
Life
[edit]Chou was raised in a family of Taiwanese immigrants in Moorpark, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles.[1] Chou studied at UC Berkeley, graduating summa cum laude in 2002, and started his career on Wall Street, where he joined Deutsche Bank to advise publicly listed technology companies on M&A and finance. After the Dot-com Bubble ended, Chou was laid off from his investment banking job, and later obtained work at venture capital firm Canaan Partners.[2]
In 2006, Chou and three co-founders established Watercooler, Inc., aiming to build a social network for sports, television, and film fans—a venture that eventually evolved into a platform for fantasy sports. When the company failed to gain significant attention, Chou pivoted the business from fantasy sports to Facebook games, releasing the game Kingdoms of Camelot in 2009.[3] In 2010, the company was renamed Kabam. In 2017, Kabam was split and sold to Netmarble and FoxNext for US$800 to US$900 million[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Adam Lashinsky (2013-12-12). "The most exciting mobile gaming company you've never heard of". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ↑ Jason, Zak (2019-06-25). "From Closet Gamer to Millionaire: How Kevin Chou Made It Big". Cal Alumni Association. Retrieved 2026-10-24.
- ↑ Connie Loizos. "Gaming company Kabam's roller coaster ride to an $800 million exit". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ↑ Dean Takahashi (2016-10-18). "Kabam receives $800 million bid for its best asset: its Vancouver studio". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2019-02-27.