EliGE and Hungrybox become owners of Team Liquid Team Liquid\/ESLTeam Liquid have added five of their players and creators as co-owners of their organization, including long-time Counter-Strike star Jonathan \u2018EliGE\u2019 Jablonowski. Stationed in both the Netherlands and the U.S., Team Liquid are a prominent esports organization with top competitors across multiple competitive titles. They\u2019ve now expanded their ownership group with five of their members \u2014 ranging from a fighting game pro, to an actor, to a women\u2019s basketball star \u2014 in an effort to access more capital and give them real stakes in the org. The leaders at Liquid personally selected the group of members that were allowed to invest and acquire shares in the organization. Those who now own some of the company include CS:GO star EliGE (who joined the org in 2015), Super Smash Bros. Melee player Juan \u2018Hungrybox\u2019 Debiedma, WNBA star Aerial Powers, poker player and streamer Alexander \u201cLex\u201d Veldhuis, and actor and fighting-game-enthusiast Asa Butterfield. There are only a handful of examples of major organizations welcoming their members as co-owners to date. 100 Thieves welcomed creators Rachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter and Jack \u2018CouRage\u2019 Dunlop as co-owners in April 2021, the same month Nicholas \u2018Nickmercs\u2019 Kolcheff obtained equity in FaZe Clan. Similarly, S\u00f8ren \u201cBjergsen\u201d Bjerg obtained ownership in TSM in 2019 (though he recently had to let go of it when he left to join Liquid in November 2021) and longtime T1 star Lee \u2018Faker\u2019 Sang-hyeok was named a co-owner of the org in February 2020. \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99 TL!!! It all started with you! Love my fam \ud83d\udc99 https:\/\/t.co\/MZyRWRac3u \u2014 LIQUID | Aerial Powers (@aerial_powers23) December 10, 2021 \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between being awarded equity as a form of compensation, to provide alignment to the organization, versus an elective investment of their own capital into the organization that they\u2019re part of,\u201d Team Liquid co-CEO Steve Arhancet told Digiday. \u201cI think it speaks volumes to their own decision-making and degree of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EliGE and Hungrybox become owners of Team Liquid Team Liquid\/ESLTeam Liquid have added five of their players and creators as co-owners of their organization, including long-time Counter-Strike star Jonathan \u2018EliGE\u2019 Jablonowski. Stationed in both the Netherlands and the U.S., Team Liquid are a prominent esports organization with top competitors across multiple competitive titles. They\u2019ve now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}