Teenage Entrepreneur Turns Gaming Hobby into a Business
With his new Web site ProHaloLeague.com and organized LAN (local area network) tournaments, Ryan Gellis, 17, hopes to move gaming from leisure to outright competition.
“The kids can play in teams with each other and can play against each other from all over the country in the comfort of their own home,” said Gellis, a freshman at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. “We have people as far as California participate in the tournaments.” […]
Gellis, who resides in Brick Township, said the whole idea of starting his own gaming Web site began three years ago.
“I started traveling to gaming tournaments with a team three years ago,” he said. “We traveled within New Jersey to Charlotte, North Carolina. I have met so many friends through the tournaments. I just decided to take the idea online.” Gellis’ father, Rick, who travels with his son to the LAN tournaments, said he wasn’t surprised his son took on the entrepreneurship challenge.
“He’s just been that type of person … he started to read and write at a really young age, he’s musically adept and is creative with Web sites,” he said.