Jeffrey Shih was born June 28, 1987, and grew up an only child in the South Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area, California (Wikipedia). He attended New York University’s Stern School of Business from 2005 to 2009, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in management and finance (Wikipedia).

Graduating into the depths of the 2009 financial crisis, Shih took a job at a bank while streaming StarCraft II on the side, gradually building an audience of a few thousand concurrent viewers in his spare time. He eventually left banking to stream full time after joining Twitch’s partner program, with his channel dating back to August 2010 (Wikipedia; TwitchTracker). Before Hearthstone, he competed as a Terran player for StarCraft II organization Vega Squadron (Liquipedia).

Shih started playing Hearthstone during its closed beta and quickly built a following for his “value”-focused, teaching-first commentary style — explaining the reasoning behind each play rather than just making it. On October 13, 2013, Team Razer signed him as the world’s first professional Hearthstone player, a title that stuck to his name for the rest of his career (Wikipedia).

That same year, he competed at BlizzCon’s Innkeeper’s Invitational, one of Hearthstone’s first-ever showcase tournaments, defeating fellow StarCraft streamer Husky in the quarterfinals before falling to eventual champion Artosis in the semifinals; he also placed third at the SeatStory Cup (Wikipedia; Liquipedia). He became known for climbing to Legend rank using free-to-play decks — Mage, Shaman, Warlock, and Priest builds with no purchased cards — which Blizzard cited publicly as validation that Hearthstone could be played at a high level without spending money (Liquipedia; Wikipedia).

He won “Most Educational Stream” at the 2013 Blizzard Stream Awards with 43% of the vote (Wikipedia), was named among the ten people who “made Hearthstone matter” in the game’s breakout year of 2014 by Dot Esports (Dot Esports), and was later ranked among Hearthstone’s most influential players by Esports.gg, which nicknamed him “The Mayor of Value Town” and called him “Hearthstone’s first teacher” (Esports.gg).

Shih’s team history ran from Team Razer (2013-2014) through a brief stint with Liquid Value in 2014, then Team SoloMid, or TSM (2014-2017), and finally Tempo Storm (2017-2018) (Esports Earnings; Liquipedia). His best individual tournament run in traditional constructed Hearthstone came in 2015, when he reached the Top 8 of the Hearthstone World Championship’s Americas Championship, finishing 7th-8th (Wikipedia).

He continued competing across HCT seasons in the years that followed without returning to that level — for example, he lost both of his matches at the 2016 HCT Summer Championship Americas Finals and did not advance toward that year’s World Championship (Liquipedia). He relocated from the Bay Area to Austin, Texas, in June 2016 (Wikipedia), and Tempo Storm parted ways with him in October 2018, ending his run with a salaried professional team (Wikipedia).

When Hearthstone Battlegrounds launched in 2019, Shih found a second competitive wind in the new autobattler format — his two largest single-tournament payouts, in fact, both came from Battlegrounds events in 2019 and 2020, after his conventional competitive run had already wound down (Esports Earnings). He has had no team affiliation since 2018 and today streams independently under the handle “TrumpSC,” covering Hearthstone, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, and other strategy titles including Age of Empires IV. As of 2026 his channel remains an active Twitch Partner account, though recent average viewership (roughly 100-200 concurrent, per a seven-day sample) is a small fraction of the 20,000-plus concurrent viewers he drew at his mid-2010s peak (TwitchTracker).

Tournament winnings are the only annual income figures verifiable for Shih. By year, per Esports Earnings: 2014, $6,462.50 across 10 events; 2015, $37,500.00 across 15 events (his career peak); 2016, $2,300.00 across 3 events; 2017, $4,250.00 across 4 events; 2018, $400.00 across 1 event; 2019, $23,275.00 across 3 events (the start of the Battlegrounds era); 2020, $28,587.50 across 7 events; and 2021, $4,125.00 across 3 events, the last year with any recorded tournament earnings (Esports Earnings).

Beyond the tournament trail, his income has come from Twitch subscriptions, advertising, bits, and donations — none of which the platform discloses on a creator-by-creator basis. TwitchTracker records an all-time peak of 1,896 active subscribers on his channel, though current activity levels are well down from that high point, meaning today’s streaming income is very likely a fraction of what it was during his 2014-2016 run (TwitchTracker).

Shih’s lifetime tournament winnings total $106,900.00 across 46 tournaments, per Esports Earnings, split between Hearthstone ($72,212.50), Hearthstone Battlegrounds ($31,250.00), and small amounts from chess, Age of Empires IV, and Teamfight Tactics events (Esports Earnings). Broken down by team, his TSM tenure is credited with $41,900.00 across 23 tournaments and his Tempo Storm run with $3,950.00 across 4 tournaments, while the remaining $61,050.00 across 19 tournaments came as an independent or Razer-era competitor (Esports Earnings).

His largest single-tournament results were a 2nd-place finish worth $21,250.00 at the 2019 Battlegrounds Brawl, a 1st-place finish worth $16,000.00 at the 2015 Vulcun Deckmasters #1 Playoffs, a 3rd-place finish worth $10,000.00 at the 2015 Archon Team League Championships, and another 3rd-place finish worth $10,000.00 at the 2020 Battlegrounds Brawl: Pirates & Mayhem (Esports Earnings). No streaming or team salary figures have ever been publicly disclosed by Razer, TSM, or Tempo Storm specifically for Shih.

No personal, individually negotiated endorsement contracts of the kind larger streaming personalities land have been publicly documented for Shih. What sponsorship exposure he did carry came through his teams: Razer’s peripherals branding during his 2013-2014 tenure, TSM’s broader sponsor roster during his 2014-2017 run, and Tempo Storm’s partner brands from 2017-2018 (Esports Earnings).

His most consistent, ongoing commercial relationship is simply with Twitch itself, as a Partner-tier channel dating back to 2010 — a platform ad and subscription revenue share rather than a brand endorsement deal (TwitchTracker). No major personal sponsorship on the scale documented for other creators in this series has surfaced in public reporting.

Unlike some of his esports-era peers who went on to found or take equity stakes in gaming organizations and media companies, no public record exists of Shih founding, co-founding, or holding an ownership stake in any business. His income has stayed tied to tournament play and platform-based content creation rather than a company he owns, and no business or investment activity beyond his streaming career has been reported.

No property records, home purchase price, or other major personal asset purchase have been publicly documented for Shih. What is on record is a relocation from the South Bay Area of California to Austin, Texas, in June 2016, with no address, purchase price, or rent figures disclosed (Wikipedia). Absent a verified deed, listing, or on-record disclosure, this profile does not assign a value to any real estate or major asset Shih may personally own.