During his five-year battle with a -then- terminal cancer diagnosis, Taylor Carol witnessed the immense impact that video games and entertainment technology had on patients’ lives. Inspired, he resolved to build a non-profit committed to leveraging gaming, technology, and innovation to empower patients to play, learn, and socialize. Despite missing nearly five years of school, Taylor, now a 23-year old Harvard Graduate, has taken GameChanger Charity from a garage hobby to an international endeavor; partnering with the largest tech companies on earth, like Amazon, to support over 20,000 children in 100 hospitals around the world.
Witnessing the desperate need for these services, Taylor and the GameChanger team resolved to create “businesses around the charity,” to both promote the GameChanger vision into the for-profit space and to ensure that GameChanger Charity always had the means to support its patient populations. In recent years the GameChanger team has created ZOTT: A for-profit subsidiary owned in majority by GameChanger Charity. ZOTT is a cloud-based content distribution platform designed to revolutionize hospitals’ patient engagement systems. Both the ZOTT and GameChanger Charity teams are thrilled to reimagine the ways in which the for-profit and non-profit sectors can harness technology to change patients’ lives forever.