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How a Finnish transplant started Yalla Esports in Dubai
Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. On a bit of a lark, Klaus Kajetski wanted to live somewhere it was warm. He grew up in the cold and dark of Finland, and he wanted to move by the […]
If I compare it to the Nordics and Finland, back then if you were a talented esports athlete you could just tell your school, “Hey, I’m going to take a gap year because I’m pursuing this career. Kajetski: It wasn’t as if one day the government woke up and announced, “Now this is a legitimate business.” It was a combination of publishers starting to see, hey, this is a real market with a lot of players–the GCC especially, they have many devices. We’ve grown the team and hired people that have done these kinds of events to combine the creative and community and regional understanding with this ESL-esque tournament organizing.
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