Harsh Jain of Dream Sports: Living the fantasy
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A common trait among many successful entrepreneurs, says Harsh Jain quoting a study, is that they were average academic students. “When you’re an entrepreneur, you can do your market sizing, research, etc.
and yet, it (the venture) may not survive. The only thing that I can guarantee you is failure. They (the entrepreneurs) learnt how to deal with failure early.
You have to just keep evolving and pivoting." Jain, 38, the co-founder and CEO of sports tech company Dream Sports, which includes the fantasy sports platform Dream11, admits to being a terrible student in school. This only provides ballast to his theory about successful founders: Dream Sports was last valued at $8 billion in 2021, having come a long way from what began as a failed start-up. Founded in 2008 by Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports has over 250 million users, a workforce of 1,200 employees in Mumbai and a diversified portfolio of companies that includes Fancode for sports content, Dream Set Go for sports travel and Dream Sports Foundation to work at the grass-roots of sports.
Post-acquisition by Dream Sports in 2021, Rolocule Games, a mobile game developer, was rebranded as Dream Game Studios, which launched Dream Cricket for a free-to-play mobile game. “Sports content, sports data, sports gaming and sports commerce, to a small degree, are the four businesses that we are really keen on. But out of this, sports content, gaming and data are the things that we see still under-tapped in India," says Jain.
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