Sameer Ahuja: Building the Future of Youth Sports

Our following guest of the Halftime Snacks is Sameer Ahuja.

He holds a master's degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's from Columbia.

Additionally, Sameer has over 20 years of experience as a C-suite executive of high-growth technology businesses.

He co-founded an interactive sports attraction, founded a hedge fund, built a fin-tech company, raised over $110M of investor capital, and achieved two successful exits!

Today, Sameer is the COO of GameChanger, a company developing youth sports communities with the highest quality game coverage.

GameChanger's apps are used by millions of youth sports coaches, fans, and athletes to score, stream, and watch youth sports. Sameer is responsible for the overall vision, strategy, and day-to-day management of the company. 

Sameer also writes a blog, Complexity Everywhere, about unexpected events in markets, politics, and society. He actively incorporates deep learning (artificial intelligence) and complexity science in research and writing.

Sameer's area of expertise lies in the intersection between finance, data, and technology.

In our conversation, we talked about GameChanger and its impact in different communities across the US, how their business shifted during the COVID pandemic, and we discussed topics surrounding finance, technology, risk, and bitcoin.

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Check out the transcript of this conversation here.

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