On the newest season of the hit present , Shaye Sharma impressed the Dragons together with his footballing board sport. The 16-year-old - who's the youngest ever star to look on the present - created the sport, which is now price £2.5million.
Shaye entered into the Den alongside his dad, Raj Sharmer asking for £50,000 in return for 5 p.c fairness of the enterprise.
The was solely 15 years previous when the episode was being filmed, he was unable to remain within the den after the pitch as tips say he's too younger to obtain a grilling from the Dragons.
Regardless of having to depart the Den after he pitched, the Dragons cherished the concept, and he and his dad managed to safe from Peter Jones.
Peter supplied the pair all the cash, £50,000, for 20 p.c of the enterprise which Raj accepted.
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Raj defined that Shaye didn't wish to use his dad's cash and as an alternative needed to run his personal enterprise independently.
Raj informed the Dragons: "Shaye stated, ‘Look, Dad, I do not need your cash', I wish to go to the Dragons.”
The board sport, Billionaire Soccer was created in 2016. It's primarily based on gamers travelling round a board buying golf equipment, shopping for stadiums, and creating the right workforce.
They'll do that by accumulating the most effective gamers, hiring and firing managers and shutting offers with brokers.
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Shaye began out by promoting in West Ham's London Stadium in December 2016, earlier than shifting to on-line gross sales.
The sport is now one of many high 20 best-selling board video games on Amazon.
After the present aired in March, Shaye defined that he and Peter didn't find yourself going into enterprise collectively.
Nevertheless, he has since turned over double what he informed the Dragons and is now price £2.5million.
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Shaye informed The Solar: “It was type of mutual. There are a number of explanation why however we thought we might run the enterprise with out Peter Jones in the meanwhile, and we’ve turned over double what we stated we'd on the present.”
He defined all the cash he’s earned by means of Soccer Billionaire is being reinvested into the enterprise, and into creating a brand new sport, Billionaire, during which gamers gather belongings like tremendous yachts and jets.
He continued: “You’re dwelling the lifetime of a billionaire, which is able to hopefully be a actuality quickly! That is the dream.
“We wish to get Soccer Billionaire into the US with our NFL board sport, and broaden into completely different leagues and likewise completely different sports activities and consider we are able to promote 1,000,000 video games within the subsequent three years.
“I additionally wish to do licensing for each single one of many Premier League golf equipment.”
Even with the enterprise doing so effectively, Shaye highlighted the significance of remaining at school and getting his GCSEs.
He's pushing for entrepreneurship to be taught as a compulsory topic in school and has turn into an envoy for Immerse Schooling, a scheme offering hands-on expertise with enterprise folks.
He added: “Younger folks must be taught to save cash, spend it correctly, and the best way to make investments, and I wish to assist younger folks, as I've performed, go on and begin their very own companies.”
Collection 20 of Dragons’ Den is on the market on iPlayer.