How do you describe online gambling giant front man Calvin Ayre? Here are a few words we can think of about this highly successful (if not the most successful online gambling persona) - online industrialist, online gambling trend setter, rebel, industry leader. We can go on and on here.

He is the epitome of a new American Dream for sure. Just over 6 months ago, he became the first online gambling executive ever to appear on the cover of Forbes magazine. This was the Billionaires issue folks. Imagine being involved in a new industry such as online gambling and getting the front page spot on the biggest and best business publication in the world. He is definitely not old money – he came from nothing and made himself one of the most talked about and noticeable figures in online gambling history.

The truest of pioneers in the Internet gaming industry, he is partly responsible in the solidification of the online gambling industry. He has even branched out into so many other industries that he is quickly becoming on the most diversified business men in the world.

Ayre has single handedly managed to institute new standards in excellence and creativity. It is safe to say that this man has come along way from rural Canada. Maybe it is the fact that he came from a hard working community that has instilled the drive that this guy holds.

Not an old guy, he was in late May, 1961 in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. We said rural and we were not joking. This unmarried and unattached guy made all his money on his own, no trust funds here.

While on summer break after his first year of university, he bought a battered truck and used it to visit a local fruit farm to purchase fruit, packed it into the old truck and drove many hours along a route which would become the foundation of his beginnings. By the time he made to the end of his destination with that truckload of food selling it on the way, an entrepreneur was born.

Ambitious to say the very least, it was his personal drive is what catapulted him in the direction of huge business successes. Being motivated by his own achievements he moves on to more innovative things to come.

Get this – he started the Bodog Entertainment Group with $10,000, which was ever cent he had at the time pretty much. In the beginning he was thinking of creating a software company. This quickly changed when he switched to online gaming after hearing about it early on.

See part 2 for the rest of this compelling bio on Influential Figure Calvin Ayre.

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