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Like Jeff Bezos and Howard Schultz, Chess.com's cofounder says people doubted his vision—with a 225 million-user empire, he's now having the last laugh

Summary by Fortune
Danny Rensch says he was “laughed out of VC rooms who said that chess would never be anything.”

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Fortune broke the news in New York, United States on Sunday, October 19, 2025.
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