Mitch Smith is the founder and Managing Director of Shockbyte, one of the largest game server hosting companies in the world. He founded Shockbyte in 2013, when he was 15 years old and still in high school. In 2022 he was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for Consumer Technology.
Before he started Shockbyte, he was running his own Minecraft server network with over a million players. Mitch took advantage of the experience running this server provided him and used it to start his own business.
Today, Shockbyte has a library of 30+ games and has served over 500,000 customers worldwide. More than 30 million players have played on Shockbyte servers, so if you’ve ever played an online multiplayer game, you have almost certainly used one of their servers.
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