12| From Zero to One Billion: Bhavit Sheth, Co-Founder/COO of Sports Unicorn Dream11.com

Bhavit Sheth is a co-founder and COO of one of the world’s newest unicorns, Dream11.com. 

This India-based tech startup, valued at over a billion dollars, has cornered the Indian market on fantasy sports, beginning with cricket’s Indian Premier League and has grown to include the NBA, NFL, EPL, La Liga, NHL, and many more to become India’s biggest fantasy sports platform. We're talking all of the plus the effect of COVID-19 on sports.

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Audio Transcript

Brian Schoenborn  0:01 

Hello, Hello Hey everybody. Our guest today is calling in from the other side of the world. We’re all staying at home and joining us quarantine COVID-19 Coronavirus. He’s calling in from Bombay, India. He’s actually one of the co founders, one of the two co founders of one of the world’s newest unicorns. So tech startup valued at over a billion dollars. Based in India, he’s got a pretty cool story behind that. And we’ve got some similar roots as well. So before, before we get into it, give it up my friend Bob sharp. My name is Brian Shin born. I’m an explorer people, places and culture. In my travels spanning over 20 countries across four continents, I’ve had the pleasure of engaging and authentic conversations with amazingly interesting people. These are their stories on location and unfiltered presented by 8B Media. This is have to see.

 

Brian Schoenborn  1:09 

What’s up, man. How you doing? I see you holding up over there.

 

Bhavit Sheth  1:13 

Hey, thanks, Ben for that intro. Yeah, it’s a tough time. It’s your time but holding up well,

 

Brian Schoenborn  1:20 

it’s crazy, right? I mean, I just I just, you know, I feel like I remember the beginning of the year when think when I started coming from China, I just you know, okay, who knows what it’s gonna be, but we knew it was gonna start spreading. But it feels like like it didn’t really hit at least in America until about a month ago. Like that’s when it really started taking off. And it went from like, life as usual to like every day as an eternity. Like a bit of lockdown for like a year. How’s it going over there, man? What’s going on in India with it?

 

Bhavit Sheth  1:54 

Yes, it is if it has affected a lot, but I was actually supposed to be in China. In January, I’ll ruin Yeah. All all bookings on everything. And then, you know, my brother being a doctor obviously had some early information on the entire Coronavirus situation and something that was developing in China. So he told me that it’s best not to go there. It’s best to avoid going to China.

 

Brian Schoenborn  2:22 

So you’re in Florida before they shut the country down then.

 

Bhavit Sheth  2:25 

Yes. And, and the best part about it is the person they’re supposed to meet in China. You know, I told him that Listen, you know, there’s this situation which is developing and it’s best avoid doing this meeting now. And the p