How much is Nadeshot worth?
| Net Worth: | $17 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Gamer |
| Date of Birth: | August 3, 1992 (age 30) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
About Nadeshot
Nadeshot, born Matthew Haag, is a professional gamer whose speciality is in Call of Duty. Nadeshot has earned income equal to a salary of $3 million dollars, since 2019. Haag takes his gamer name from Halo and is short for “grenade shot”, a lethal move in the legendary first person shooter. The gamer became infamous among Call of Duty players and esports attendees for doing so well in the leagues and rising through the ranks to earn tens of thousands of dollars at a time.
His resume includes being a former OpTic Gaming Call of Duty team captain, earning a gold medal in the X Games, and winning Esports Athlete of the Year in 2014. Haag has gone on to found and co-own the extremely popular and successful esports team, 100 Thieves.
With the dozens of Call of Duty competitions the gamer has taken part in, Nadeshot has won the majority of them, and as each event has cash prizes of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s safe to say that he has accrued millions from winning these events alone.
One of his biggest events was the Call of Duty XP, a tournament used to promote Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The game’s developer, Activision, handed over a grand prize of $400,000 to Haag’s team, with Nadeshot himself winning an estimated $100,000 of it.
Since its inception, 100 Thieves has been getting bigger and bigger, expanding its brand to more than just a gaming organisation, but now a lifestyle brand too. Besides the team entering and winning competitions in League of Legends, Fortnite Battle Royale, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and of course the Call of Duty series, 100 Thieves also sells multiple clothing collections, often focusing on sports attire.
The lifestyle brand was recently valued at valuation of $460 million by Bloomberg, in 2021. Which has grown over 100% from the previous year and now has extremely high profile investors such as Drake, the music manager Scooter Braun, and the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dan Gilbert, among others.
On top of profiting off his gaming roots and his highly lucrative business ventures, to put the cherry on top, Haag also makes a nice income from endorsing products on Instagram. As Nadeshot has over one million followers on the social media platform, brands pay him a significant amount to promote their products.
Though how much the brands pay is undisclosed, Haag has endorsed Kia, LG, and G Fuel, among others. The gamer also makes a good chunk of money through his two YouTube channels, estimated to be making $270 per day from ad revenue based on 150,000 video views per day.
It was at the young age of thirteen when Haag started taking competitive gaming seriously with the Halo series, and it seems like he hasn’t put down the DuelShock controller since. It’s thanks to his commitment and determination to evolve and progress through the ranks that he has won handfuls of championships and tournaments.
However, his success is not only owed to his exposure and expertise in the field, but strangely enough, also to the fact that he has a massive female following in the industry due to his “boy-next-door” aesthetic, as that has gotten him huge sponsors such as Redbull.
With 100 Thieves, Haag has perfectly understood what direction to head in as he is great at understanding current trends. Though the foundation of 100 Thieves is a brand by gamers, for gamers, Haag hasn’t put 100 Thieves in a niche box. The clothing collections aren’t aimed exclusively at gamers and it makes great looking streetwear and sportswear for everyone, which is why the brand has become so successful and why superstars like Drake feel the need to invest in them.
Nadeshot’s Total Net Worth
Nadeshot has earned estimated total career income of $35 million dollars from his career on YouTube and in business. As Nadeshot has lived for most of his career in the state of California, he will have had to pay around 49% in taxes on his career income. After tax, it is estimated that his career earnings are at around $17.85 million dollars, having paid $17.15 million dollars in taxes.
Nadeshot has a longtime girlfriend and one child. In his personal life he has likely spent $1-2 million dollars of his career earnings but also earned $3 million dollars from his investments outside of his entrepreneurship. He will have also had to pay around $1.5-2.5 million dollars in business costs. Therefore, it is estimated that Nadeshot has a net worth of about $17 million dollars.
Summing-Up
After starting from the bottom just like his investor, Haag has left McDonald’s in the dust by relentlessly honing in his skills and becoming a Call of Duty world champion, making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and using those winnings as startup capital for 100 Thieves. Nadeshot reportedly has an estimated net worth of $7 million dollars.
Two million of that figure can be attributed to his numerous wins in competitive gaming, and the majority of the rest is thanks to his business expertise and creating a $460 million dollar (and counting) lifestyle brand.
