FOR CONNECTING GAMERS WITH PROS IN A WAY THAT EVERYONE WINS
gamer Josh Fabian set out to create Metafy, a service that links average video-game players with in 2016 but still didn’t make anything close to his former salary as a lead designer at Groupon—Fabian saw an opportunity for Metafy to offer pros another revenue stream. The two-year-old service doesn’t charge fees to coaches and instead passes a 5% transaction cost on to students. Fabian says that more than 1,000 coaches have joined the service in response to this policy. Most have earned an average of $4,000, though Metafy projects that as many as six coaches will each take in $100,000 this year. Students also reap the benefits. He cites the 76-year-old who has been using Metafy to be coached on . After a few sessions, Fabian reached out to find out why. The man told Fabian he’d recently had a hip replacement and couldn’t visit his grandchildren, so he’d taken up gaming with them: “He was getting better [at ] so he could keep up with them”.
