Nikhil Vimal is an AI Consultant, Startup/Product Advisor + Angel, and the Co-Owner of Team Meteor. He's been in the technology/startup space for over 8 years and has been focused on different projects + ventures in the world of open source, conversational ai, customer experience, and more. He is also a frequent speaker at different tech/startup-focused events around the United States, and has been featured on VentureBeat, LinkedIn, and Business Insider. He is also currently an Independent Innovation Consultant for the National Football League.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikvimal

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilvimal/

Company Website: Chatmode.io

Personal Website: https://nikhilvimal.com/

Team Meteor: https://twitter.com/TeamMeteorGG

Timestamps:

00:51 - Co-owning an e-sports team

04:27 - How do you build an engaging community around e-sports?

06:32 - Leveraging experience gained in e-sports into other areas

09:04 - Building partnerships and being scrappy

11:36 - Operating in a space that’s still developing

13:58 - What’s most challenging about leveling up in e-sports?

16:44 - Do athletes in e-sports have to have personas outside of the sport in order to be marketable?

22:02 - Biggest lever yet to be unlocked in the e-sports space?

24:27 - Value of experimentation 

27:23 - Partnerships and experimentation

32:19 - How to implement experimentation and convert users?

36:25 - Building Chatmode.io

44:28 - Angel investing

46:47 - What is something that you wish more people knew more about?

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