This year, the Oregon native - who repelled wildfires for the U.S. Hays oversees content, merchandising and esports for the organization, which has about 75 employees. 'Tiny Beautiful Things'' Liz Tigelaar Talks About the Tightrope Walk of TV Adaptations He sued the organization, claiming that his contract, which entitled FaZe Clan to take up to 80 percent of his earnings, was “oppressive.” They settled in August.) (FaZe Clan parted ways with one of its biggest stars, Turner “Tfue” Tenney, in 2019. ![]() Individual players can make upward of $100,000 a month as gaming influencers.) On the content side, gamers like 23-year-old Alexander Prynkiewicz, aka FaZe Adapt, create YouTube and TikTok videos from the company-leased Burbank mansion where seven of them live. ( estimates that Faze Clan has won $9 million in prize money. The Hollywood company, which counts Offset, Pitbull and Jimmy Iovine as investors, boasts a roster of 39 pro esports players across eight teams who compete in tournaments featuring such top games as CoD, Fortnite and Valorant. Launched in 2010 after its three founders began making a YouTube series featuring their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay, FaZe Clan has come to define a new type of media organization, one that makes the gaming lifestyle trendy through its digital programming and branded hoodies. “FaZe is like the world’s team,” says Hays, who has become well versed in the power of gaming influencers since assuming the role of FaZe Clan COO in January. ![]() She’d never heard of the company, but the pull of its 230 million social media followers was hard to ignore. Jaci Hays was advising European soccer teams on how to become media companies when an investor in esports and media organization FaZe Clan called her about a job.
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