Sean Mike Kelly is an American investor and serial entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain industry. He is also a Web3 educator and influencer. He founded Jersey Champs which makes custom jerseys based on trends and hip-hop culture as well as original designs.  Since launching Jersey Champs, Kelly has been featured in major newspapers, magazines, and a number of blogs and podcasts.

Kelly has 3 current jobs including VP of WEB3 Marketing & Strategy at InfiniteWorld, Founder at Chibi Dinos NFT, and Founder at Jersey Champs.

Early Life & Education

Sean Kelly grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey, US, and graduated from Bridgewater-Raritan High School. He has considered himself an entrepreneur and in elementary school would sell candy, Pokémon cards, crazy bones, and whatever else he could get his hands on.

At one point in 7th grade, he was suspended from school because his classmates preferred Kelly's candy over the school's vending machines, undercutting the school's profits.

Kelly dropped out of college during his sophomore year to work on Jersey Champs full time; the company is now a multi-million dollar company.^[5]

Kelly taught himself business by watching e-commerce and business-related videos of Tai Lopez, Gary Vaynerchuk, Ezra Firestone, Jon Mac, Ben Malol, Patrick Bet-David, Evan Carmichael, Sam Ovens and Grant Cardone.

Career

Kelly first started out in crypto by investing his money into small market cap altcoins and bringing like-minded individuals together he created a communication channel that includes celebrity rappers like Ugly God and business owners who all have $1 million dollars in cryptocurrency. Later on, from small market cap coins he started dabbling with NFT projects.^[4]

Kelly launched Jersey Champs in May 2016 out of his college dorm room at Rutgers University.  He started with $1,000 and took in pre-orders for his first jersey and sold all 100 jerseys within the first week. Utilizing his experience in business, Kelly contributed to several websites including Business.com, BuzzFeed, Kivo Daily, Thrive Global, MillBuzz, Awaken The Greatness, Future Sharks & Succeed. Combining hip-hop culture and trending memes with the world of jerseys, Kelly collaborates with a team of independent graphic designers he found on Instagram and Behance to create the final product. Some popular Jersey concepts include Harambe, Trump, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Flint Tropics, Shanghai Sharks and more.

Kelly had several struggles in the early days of Jersey Champs. During Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2016, Jersey Champs had a massive increase in demand and were a month late on orders, resulting in chargebacks and refunds.  Also in 2016, the music festival Neon Desert ordered 100 jerseys and never paid for them upon receival. Kelly learned from these experiences and made the proper adjustments to his business, such as moving to Shopify and never sending jerseys without a down payment.  Jersey Champs has since grown to become one of the largest sports jersey companies in North America.

In April 2020, Sean Kelly launched PPE America during the pandemic to sell N-95 masks. He built this business in 2020 with only two employees.^[2]

In August 2021, Kelly founded Chibi Dinos, a 10,000 NFT play and earn project which sold out in under half an hour upon launch.

In April 2022, Kelly sold his NFT marketing company, NFT Gorillas to InfiniteWorld. ^[1]

Utilizing his experience in business, Kelly contributes to several websites including Business.com, BuzzFeed, Kivo Daily, Thrive Global, MillBuzz, Awaken The Greatness, Future Sharks & Succeed.^[3]

Chibi Dinos

In August 2021, Kelly released his first NFT project Chibi Dinos on OpenSea with his partners Kevin Moses, Dan Rozenberg, and Roxy Jagers, which sold out in less than half an hour.^[6] The Chibi Dinos, are dressed in dinosaur suits and in the jerseys of 10 basketball teams.