caption leagues status nationality earnings birth_date nickname image article_title hometown name games
thresh for a vendor at comdex in 1997 -lrb- foreground -rrb- at a video game competition professional gamers league cyberathlete professional league retired hong kong united states ~ 16,000.00 11 march 1977 thresh file : thresh at comdex in 1997.jpg dennis fong
 los altos , california dennis fong '' '' quake '' '' quake ii '' '' quakeworld
dennis fong

dennis `` thresh '' fong -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born march 11 , 1977 -rrb- is an american entrepreneur and retired professional gamer .
he is a co-founder of xfire , an instant messenger and social networking site for gamers which was acquired by viacom for 102 million in april 2006 .
he also co-founded lithium technologies , a leading social customer relationship management -lrb- crm -rrb- company .
in his playing career his highest profile victory came in 1997 at the red annihilation `` quake '' tournament , where he placed first and won id software ceo john d. carmack 's ferrari 328 .
thresh is recognized by the guinness book of world records as the first professional gamer .
