 Hi, how are you doing? This is Rich. Here we have a RichTV Live with a very special guest, the CEO of Victory Square Technologies, Shafeen Tejani. How are you doing today, Shafeen? I'm good, man. Thanks for having me. Thank you for joining us. Why don't we start off by you telling us a little bit about your company, Victory Square Technologies. So at Victory Square, we're building the tech giants of the future. We've selected and curated about 20 portfolio companies from all over the world. These are companies that are using AI, AR, VR, blockchain to disrupt the health, gaming, fintech, and insurance spaces. So what we do is we identify those companies and we bring in some super talented people to help, you know, incubate, grow, scale, and commercialize those companies. That's fantastic. A number of your select portfolio companies have achieved significant milestones when looking at revenue growth, product development, and customer acquisition. Can you tell us about three of these companies? Yeah, so we've got a number of companies doing some exciting things. But if I had to, you know, to talk about only three, I would say V2 games, fans unite, and immersive tech. And there's three consistent themes to those companies. One is they're addressing a pain point in a large market. Two, each of those companies are first mover and thought leaders in those spaces. You know, and the third is that they've got a very strong team and a product, you know, kind of in there. In the case of V2 games, they're disrupting the gaming and eSports space. It's a royalty play. It's led by a founder named Sam Chandola. He's a top 30 under 30 winner, super sharp. This company originally came out of India. They've been building and working on projects like Pac-Man, Men in Black, Hello Kitty, Pacific Rim Breach Wars. And I think Snapchat just actually invested or co-invested in one of the projects that had been incubating in V2. And, you know, they say the gaming space is bigger than movies and music combined. So, you know, we're super excited about that. We also have a controlling interest in V2, and it'll be, I think, being spun off in the next four to six months. The second would be fans unite. You know, the sports betting space, they're a disruptor in that space. Really, really sharp team, but the space is massive. Right now we're targeting the U.S. market. In the U.S. market, the numbers have flown around. It's about a $150 billion market that's illegal right now that's going to be legalized in the next three to five years. And fans unite to kind of position themselves well into that space. They'll also be going public and being spun out of VST in the next four to six months to unlock value. And then the third is a company called Immersive Tech, again led by two top 30 under 30 winners, Jeff Zhang and Adrian Duke. They're targeting the employee training space, which in North America I think is a $40 to $60 billion market. And their first movers, they've attracted Fortune 500 clients. Some of their largest clients include Capital One. They just signed on Allegiant, Airlines, Scotiabank, Snickers. So, again, big market, first movers, really smart teams. That's really impressive. Now, you have an impressive history launching over 40 startups in 24 countries and being included in the top 40 under 40. Congratulations on all your success and also being awarded the Canadian Angel Investor of the Year. Amongst many other things, how do you think this benefits Victory Square? First off, I think that a lot of that success is the team that's supporting myself and VST. So there's a lot of people that are contributing to that success. I'd say the biggest factor is it takes time to build a great company. I've been in a tech space for over 25 years. I've lived through the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the smartphone boom, the collapse in the 809 and the financial markets. And today, what we refer to as the intelligence revolution. And the key there is seeing the ebbs and flows not panicking when times are tough. That's when you either need to be agile and adjust your business model or stay the course and not panic. And I think it's that experience over that 25 years and those 25 years of success that we've been able to bring to VST to kind of stay the course on what our vision is, but also bring that to our portfolio companies to help them kind of see the grander vision and not be panicked. Over those 25 years, given the success we've had, we've also attracted some amazing talent. So I think one of the other benefits is we've been able to bring a lot of talent locally and globally to VST and its portfolio companies. And the third is attracting capital and clients globally. You know, having over those 25 years launched products and services in over 24 countries, we're able to help not only VST but our portfolio companies kind of commercialize globally. They say tech is borderless and I think that's a big advantage for us. That's great. Now, who are some of Victory Square Technologies' main competitors and how do you stand out? You know, I don't think we have any direct competitors because our model is identify a pain point in a large addressable market, find a pain customer, and then go find or build a solution for that customer. So that in its own is kind of something that within VST we look towards our own business model and a way to generate revenue and profit. But we have been compared to other companies and a couple of them I would say, one is Constellation Software, which is a Canadian company, I think a market cap over a billion. They go and buy, you know, I think more mature tech companies, they're buying balance sheets. Rocket Internet is another one. It's based out of Germany. Yeah, and they go and invest in and grow tech companies that, you know, I think have passed like that series A, series B kind of level. And the third is probably like a Y Combinator, which is based in, you know, in the valley and they're focused on, again, you know, emerging tech. I would say those are probably the three companies we're compared to most of the time. But for us, you know, we feel like, you know, we've got our business model and our plan and, you know, we stay in our lane. Very good. Now it's important to have a strong team. How does the team at Victory Square make the company so successful? You know, everything for us is really around the team. You know, we have this motto, you know, ideas, people and capital are kind of the key elements. So at, you know, Victory Square, we have a vision and we built a, you know, kind of a game plan and a roadmap to help realize that vision. But, you know, it's the people, the resources that help us execute on it. And so I think, again, over the 25 years of being in the tech space and building products in over 24 countries, we've been able to attract some of the brightest minds on our C-suite. Partnerships with over 80 accelerators around the world. So accelerators in Berlin, Germany, Delhi, India, Sao Paulo, Brazil. You know, again, tech is borderless. So for us, given that we have a global kind of mindset, attracting that talent from all over has been key. So C-level partnerships and just as an example, some of those partnerships aren't just accelerators, but they're large companies like Foxwood's Casino, which is the largest native man casino in the US. You know, organizations like McKinsey Consulting and EY, the Canadian government, you know, which has been key. And then the talent of entrepreneurs that we're building around or investing in, some of these are first movers in the brightest minds in a lot of their different kind of disciplines. So earlier we talked about Sam Chandola in the gaming space. He's a thought leader, Jeff Zhang and Adrian Duke. He's a really, really big thought leaders in the immersive space. And then Darius Agami, who's the CEO of Fans Unite. Again, thought leader in the sports betting and gaming community. Very good. Now, your financial outlook shows impressive and consistent revenue growth. Very impressed with your revenue growth. Tell us about how this has been achieved and maintained. So again, I think it's discipline. You know, we have a vision. We have a game plan and we've attracted the talents to help execute on that. Myself and a business partner fund the company. So it's not only important that we're disciplined and fiscally responsible on our business plan and model, but because we're funding it, it's important that the company is hitting its revenue targets if not exceeding it and squeezing out profit to continue to grow and build out the company. So I think sticking to a very disciplined plan, having a vision, sticking to a disciplined plan and then having the financial capacity to fund that growth has been key to maintaining that consistency for us. Now, having a public company, I always tell everyone there's two businesses. There's the underlying business and then there's the public side, which a lot of the time has to do with your share structure. Can you explain to us a little bit about your share structure? Yeah, so I think we have about 73 to 74 million shares out. No overhang, no warrants. Out right now. So it's very tight. I think management owns just under 50%. I'm the largest shareholder. I have not sold a single share. I've continued to accumulate my position as a big believer in what we're doing. And it's interesting one of the points you just brought up. It's something we've been told that as a CEO of a public company, you have two jobs. One is to manage the business and the other is to manage the market. That's one thing that it's a learning curve as we continue to grow. We've really focused on the operational side, so we're very confident in the KPIs and what we built. And now for us, it's focusing on that other side, which is the market, so sharing what we're doing and the great things we're doing and how undervalued we are to investors. And that brings me to the next question. Our community is all over the world and it's a lot of investors looking for companies that are underappreciated, underexposed, and undervalued. Why would one of those investors want to buy this stock? Out of all the stocks out there, why this one? So I love this saying Warren Buffett always says, which is it's not enough to invest in a good company, but it's the entry point of that company. So first off, we feel like the entry point is great. We feel like we're significantly undervalued. And two, I think we give investors the opportunity to invest in the next tech unicorns or the unicorns before their unicorns. We're doing the legwork to validate some of the brightest startups from around the world and then giving investors access to invest in them through VST, alongside myself at the same levels as myself, but with the opportunity to get in early to something that to companies that may be the next Microsoft, Facebook, or Google, investors also say, I wish I could have had an opportunity to invest in those companies when they were at their infancy and we give them that opportunity. I think also too, for investors globally, it's very difficult to get access to early stage tech companies at the time you do. Their public and their valuations are significant. Or you have to invest in a fund. So meet the criteria of a fund and be locked into a private company. Here, VST is audited. It's transparent and it's liquid. So we feel like not only is it undervalued and the opportunity is significant, but it's an investment that allows people to invest in and get liquidity or take money off the table during different positions of the company cycle. That's fantastic. Now, where do you see Victory Square Technologies headed in the future? For us, the future, we look at this in the next three to five years. We're making some bets, which we think are going to be significant in gaming and sports betting, insurance, fintech. So we're confident that we've got some big winners in here. But in the short term, over the next, I would say six to 12 months, our goal is to continue to grow our revenues, spin off some of the portfolio companies that have matured like Fans Unite, V2 Games, unlock value for VST shareholders and VST through that. And the third is we've been incubating some really exciting new projects that we've kind of kept under wraps. I think over the next six to 12 months, we'll start introducing to the market. And I think that'll bring a lot of attention, eyeballs, and value to VST. That's fantastic. Well, you know what? We're so excited here at Rich TV Live to see the growth. And thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. And for those of you that are not watching, thank you so much for joining us today, Shafeen. This is the CEO of Victory Square Technologies, Shafeen Tejani. Have yourselves a great day and thank you for watching.