
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.