The Indian Startup Show

Yash Pariani - Founder of The Indian Gaming League. On building India’s most popular esports league & the booming indian e-sport scene

Episode Summary

The Indian e-sport scene is booming. So today I speak to Yash Pariani co-founder of The Indian Gaming League. IGL is India’s most popular competitive gaming and esports league that hosts gaming tournaments online and they are growing fast! IGL hosts daily online tournaments and battle royales across all your favourite game titles like Call of Duty Mobile, Fortnite, Dota 2, Fifa 20, 8-Ball pool, Clash Royale, Pubg and many more. So in this episode he talks about how he is creating an infrastructure for Indian gamers. Talks about building trust within the community. How demonetisation helped the esports industry in India. Talks about esports as a respectable career.and finally he talks about Steve Jobs, dealing with concerned parents and dealing with cheats!

Episode Notes

In this conversation we also talk about:

Stats so far
Key learnings as an entrepreneur
Why Fortnite became a hit game
What you need to be a top esports player?
Streaming games
Esports v traditional sports
Will it become an Olympic event
Offline tournaments v online tournaments
how much can you win?
Thoughts on starting your own Esports team
Female E-gamers
Seeking challenges

links

https://www.iglnetwork.com/

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music by Punch Deck. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kdduxAVaFnbHJyNxl7FWV