Shane Yeend describes himself as "just some bloke from Adelaide with a whiteboard" – but what's written on that whiteboard could earn this Aussie entrepreneur millions., an interactive games company that is on the precipice of delivering a Netflix-style experience for family game night.
As Yeend tells 9News.com.au, a key component to Gamestar is that instead of spending $20 on a family set of scrabble, a far cheaper monthly subscription could offer users thousands of games. The business is currently raising funds for the concept, which Yeend says is "weeks away" from having a product in market in time for Christmas.
Yeend says the concept is not just using new technology, but creating an entirely new category of entertainment known as streaming-games-on-demand, or SGOD."We're at the junction of something really new. DVDs went to Netflix, music went to Spotify, books went to Audible and no-one has gone into this game category," Yeend says.
While Yeend is cautiously optimistic about forecasting success, the scale of the premise is potentially huge.
Yeend? That's not an ethnic Anglo name? Where is he or his ancestors originally from if not from the UK?