Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAY 2022年5月 亞博匯 84 Oscar Guijarro: Thanks for speaking with us, Rutger. Can you tell us a bit about your origins? Rutger Verschuren: I’m a Dutch national and went to the hotel school in The Hague. Before that, my childhood was filled with playing hockey and hanging out, but also with a lot of weekend jobs. I liked to do things on the weekend and I had my own drive-in discotheque called “Disco Tropical” which was a little bit of entrepreneurship at the age of 14. I started up with just one record player, and then the local hockey club would have disco afternoons for the kids. I played the music and with all the money I earned I would buy new records and equipment, so INDUSTRY PROFILE over a few years, quite quickly, I became semi-professional. I was playing at big parties back in Holland, deejaying. It wasn’t like today either – we had real vinyl records. Later on I had another two discotheques, including one with cassette tapes and also a DJ working for me. I continued with that while I was doing hotel