Steph McMahon

There was a lot of discrimination in a very affluent white community.

And those years were tough.

But for me, sports was my escape.

I loved basketball and I loved gaming.

And I just thought, as much as my parents were annoyed being like, we're working so hard and you're sitting around playing video games, that there was something there.

The gaming business had just barely been scratched, and I thought there was an opportunity.

And so I chased a lot of careers in sports.

I actually went to Columbia Law School for nine whole weeks and dropped out because I wanted to be a sports agent.

I wanted to be Jerry Maguire.

You know, I work with so many of those guys now, and I'm so glad that that is not what happened to me.

But, yeah, when I got into, oh, and then, you know, in 2005, I was top 10 in the leaderboards in 2K.

I played since the original 2K, not to age myself again, but top 10 in the leaderboards, played the heck out of the game, was very good at it.

You just loved it from the beginning.

I just loved it from the beginning.

And I saw I saw like the technological like where they were going, like they meaning 2K.

Yeah, I don't know, actually.

Like they they wanted to set us up with the best opportunity there.

You know, the high schools, the schools.

Yeah.

And I actually went to private school my first year in high school, which was $20,000, which back then was a lot of money.