About blazio sports
Our Mission
blazio sports (pronounced blay-zio) is a Chicagoland-based social enterprise whose mission is to deliver memorable youth sports media experiences, strengthening bonds among families, players and coaches.
We provide a pro-game level viewing experience by working at the intersection of 3 trends: (1) virtualization technology, (2) low-cost video broadcast hardware and software, and (3) rising demand for ever-higher quality video and other media production focusing on youth athletes.
Our staff itself is mainly teens, many of whom are student athletes, and often collaborating entirely online. Our community of parents, entrepreneurs and advisors believes that all teens, regardless of situation and geography, can gain lifelong entrepreneurial skills and mutual understanding and empathy through building a profitable business together.
Our enterprise is similar to financially-sustainable businesses founded and passed on by university students for decades – campus bookstores, laundry services, etc. The goal of our parent social enterprise, blazio, is to enable a similar model of learning and entrepreneurship for teens, starting with youth sports broadcasting, and expanding to other businesses.
blazio sports and blazio were founded by Tom Lee. Tom is a serial entrepreneur who starts, operates, advises and challenges organizations to make things better for the next generation. As a father of two teens, he created blazio sports to be a new approach to entrepreneurial education for youth while meeting the rising need for families to connect with each other through sports.
Empowering teen entrepreneurship
Our business is not a simulation but a real enterprise which will ultimately succeed or not. Our teen staff experiences the ups and downs of building and operating a real organization responsible to all its stakeholders.
University student-run businesses have produced some of the most successful entrepreneurs and innovators in the world.
We believe that teens are similarly capable when assisted with the right support from parents and advisors. Our society often underestimates teens’ capabilities in today’s age of limitless information, low-cost powerful tech, and unprecedented ways of connecting with each other.
We are dedicated to creating a level and equitable playing field for all young people, particularly across artificial lines which may currently divide and obscure what they all have in common.
Our Core Values
- Equality
- Empathy
- Excellence