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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
William Jones

From Prison Cell to a $250 Million Vision: How One Man Rebuilt His Life — and the Sports Industry

Sixteen thousand people fill Dubai's Coca-Cola Arena. Cameras flash, football legends step onto the stage — and beside them stands a man who, just a few years earlier, was sitting in a detention cell on fabricated charges.

Today, Dmitry Saksonov is the founder of Blockchain Sports, a fast-growing sports-technology ecosystem valued at $250 million — a company built on lessons learned in isolation, adversity, and reinvention.

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