Dream comes true: How Harsh Jain, Bhavit Sheth became fantasy sports champs

Following their passion has finally paid off for the two with their fantasy sports platform Dream11 entering the unicorn club this week with a valuation of over $1 billion

Fate works in strange ways. If Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth had not decided to follow their passion for fantasy sports almost a decade back, the former might have ended up in the family real estate business and the latter in textiles.

“If not textiles I may even have ended up in financial services, with my MBA background but IPL had just taken off and we felt a need to experience and share the thrill of fantasy cricket with our cricket-crazy nation and things fell into place,” Sheth, COO and co-founder, Dream11, reminisces.

Following their passion did pay off with their fantasy