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What company did Menashe Kestenbaum found?
Enthusiast Gaming, a Toronto gaming media company. The Globe and Mail reported on 2021-01-08 that Kestenbaum founded Enthusiast in 2015 and built it into a media company through acquisitions, focusing on niche audiences around particular games and platforms.
How did Menashe Kestenbaum get into gaming media?
The Globe and Mail reported on 2021-01-08 that he was teaching at a religious school in Israel and gaming at night when he started a blog called Nintendo Enthusiast for extra income, then left teaching the Talmud in 2013 and moved to Toronto to blog full-time. In a 2019-04-10 interview on Andrew Mohan's blog, he said he launched his own website in 2011.
What was his role after the Luminosity Gaming merger?
The Globe and Mail reported on 2021-01-08 that when Aquilini's investment company merged Luminosity Gaming with Enthusiast in September 2019, Kestenbaum became president of the combined company.
Is Menashe Kestenbaum still at Enthusiast Gaming?
MarketScreener reported on 2022-05-17 that Enthusiast Gaming announced Kestenbaum had left its board of directors. We could not confirm his current role on a page we checked in September 2026.