Adeel Yang on Living Alone at 14, his Golf Obsession & Building Dryvebox

What happens when a former medical student, startup founder, and self-described golf addict decides to reinvent how people experience golf?

In this episode of The Big Swing, Jimmy Roberts sits down with Adeel Yang, the co-founder and CEO of Dryvebox — one of the most innovative companies in golf’s rapidly evolving off-course economy.

What started as a pandemic passion project inside a trailer has become a fast-growing business bringing mobile golf simulators to music festivals, corporate events, professional sports teams, movie sets, golf courses, and communities around the world.

But Adeel’s personal story is just as compelling as the business itself.

At 14 years old, he moved from Taiwan to Los Angeles and lived alone while learning English and attending high school. Years later, after medical school and multiple tech startups, he found himself obsessed with golf — and searching for a way to make the game more accessible to everyone.

In this episode, we cover:

-The unbelievable story of living alone in America at 14

-Why Adeel walked away from medicine and entrepreneurship to build Dryvebox

-How a golf simulator inside a trailer became a national franchise business

-The future of off-course golf and golf technology

-Dryvebox’s partnerships with TGL: Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s league

-Why golf simulators are changing how people discover the game

-Building startups, raising money, and surviving co-founder fallout

-The emotional realities of entrepreneurship most founders never talk about

This conversation is about far more than golf.

It’s about risk, reinvention, obsession, technology, and what it really takes to build something from nothing.

If you care about golf, startups, innovation, or the future of sports business, this is a conversation worth your full attention.

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