John Chayka's story sounds more like something out of Silicon Valley than St. Catharines, Ont.
Like tech wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, Chayka's ascent hatched with a clever idea at a young age that blossomed into a successful business.
He was just 19 or so, working at a hockey school and hoping to help students with numbers that could better inform their performance. He watched video of their games, logged the numbers by hand and passed on what he found.
Lane, a friend with a business, science and math background, transformed the process into something more efficient. The combination of their talents became Stathletes, an analytics company which aimed to make numbers more accessible for everyday hockey types.
As players absorbed the data Chayka presented, numbers that demonstrated what they were and weren't doing on the ice, the young co-founders felt they were onto something.
Nope sure does not sound like a young person with an unique idea in the advances stats field that eventually becomes a successful company, aka Wunderkind.. Why would anyone get that impression?