Stakester Story Podcast: Rory Cook, Social Influencer & Community Growth Specialist

In this episode, he tells us how he left university with a degree in Economics but didn’t know what to do next. He shares how he came across Stakester through a friend who had applied for an internship here and he was instantly fascinated with the company and luckily there was another internship going. Rory took a chance and applied, he went into the interview with a small amount of experience but a lot of passion and drive to get this internship. And he did, he won over his manager Josh with his understanding of the community that Stakester is targeting, his experience with managing Youtubers NepentheZ’s comments on his youtube channel, discord, and formulated NepetheZ’s tournament. As well as his overall passion and love for gaming and FIFA Youtubers.

In this episode you will hear:

• What Rory was doing before he joined Stakester
• How he found out about Stakester and instantly wanted to be a part of it.
• How Rory understood the community and target audience Stakester is trying to hit as he is in that community.
• He shares that in his interview he pitched his ideas for the company and shared his passion for gaming and influencers that won him the job.
• Rory shares how at one point in his internship he had to step up to the mark and manage all of Stakester’s social media, which he did exceedingly well.
• He explains how before Stakester he was managing the comments on NepentheZ’s youtube channel and went on to be a moderator in his discord and then formulated NepetheZ’s tournament.
• Rory shares the highlight of his job so far is working with Rory Jennings to create the Stakester Showdown. He explains that in his first few days he messaged Rory to start a discussion on how he could get him involved with Stakester.
• He tells us his plans going forwards with Stakester.