Andrew Paradise
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board

I'm proud to share that Skillz Inc. has rebranded to Firy Inc. with a ticker change to FIRY going into effect on June 22. For those of you who are new to our story, I'm Andrew Paradise, CEO and Founder of Firy. Firy is the rebirth of our company.

It reflects the real evolution of how we operate, how we think and what we're building. It represents something deeper than a rebrand. The name comes from imagery of a Phoenix Rising, something that burns intensely, takes everything thrown at it and it comes out the other side transformed. You're going to laugh, but the runner-up was Bennu, which is ancient Egyptian for Phoenix. It really didn't roll off the tongue, so it landed on Firy, Old English for "fiery" to burn brightly.

For a company that's been through what we've been through, fought the way we fought and come out building something more exciting than what we started with, the name felt appropriate for the next chapter of our 100-year journey. And now a message from our attorneys.

Our timeline has two stories I want to tell. One about our company and one about the industry we formed. Starting with our company. Skillz built a category that didn't exist. Pre-2012, if you want to compete in a mobile game for real prizes, you simply couldn't. With 90-plus patents and 110 pending, we created the category. We were told it would be a $200 million category in the next 10 years. Today, it's over $15 billion.

By 2017, we won the