What is DrLupo’s net worth? Who is DrLupo’s wife?
Introduction
DrLupo (real name – Benjamin Lupo) is an American YouTuber and streamer who has over 4.5 million followers on Twitch.
TIME named him one of the most influential people on the Internet.
Biography
DrLupo was born on March 20, 1987, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
His father passed away in 2018; he was 68 and had worked as a professor of psychology for 40 years.
Benjamin worked as a systems engineer for a local insurance firm in Omaha.
Twitch
In 2013, Lupo started to stream on Twitch. At the time of writing, Benjamin has more than 4.5 million followers on the platform.
He first started to play Diablo. Later, he was focused on Destiny (an online-only multiplayer first-person shooter video game published by Activision). Lupo played over 7,000 hours of Destiny.
However, Benjamin started to gain fame after he started to stream Fortnite.
For a while, besides streaming on Twitch, he still maintained his engineering job.
According to Business Insider, he plays video games on Twitch for about 80 hours a week.
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Benjamin started his YouTube channel on October 5, 2013. Lupo mostly uploads highlights from his Twitch streams. The channel has over 200 million views and over 1.84 million subscribers.
In 2017, Lupo attended the TwitchCon event.
In July 2018, he signed with the esports organization Team Rogue. Some of the investors in the sports organization include Landon Collins, Nick Gross, Nicky Romero, Rudy Gobert, and Imagine Dragons.
In August 2019, Lupo signed a new multi-year deal with the parent company of Rogue, ReKTGlobal, reported CNBC.
”Ben is an integral part of the Rogue brand and has been for some time now,” saidDerek Nelson, the founder and CEO of Rogue. He added:”Negotiations of his contract extension couldn’t have gone smoother.”
”Rogue encompasses professionalism at its finest in the esports industry,” Benjamin commented. He continued:”The relationships that I’ve developed within Rogue feel like no other – the only word I can use to truly describe the feeling is ‘family.’”
He is a mentor in Team Rogue’s Junior Rogue program. Benjamin said,” We want to give these kids a chance to grow as both players and entertainers.”
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At the end of 2019, he signed a multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Twitch. Twitch said, ”we wish you nothing but the best in everything that comes next.”
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In October 2020, he streamed for the first time alongside Borat.
YouTube deal
In August 2021, Benjamin inked a streaming exclusivity deal with YouTube. ”I am incredibly fortunate to be able to do what I love,” he said.
In September 2023, DrLupo signed with YouTube for another year.
Wife
DrLupo married Samantha Lupo in 2010. Samantha manages his professional gaming career.
Children
The couple has a son named Charlie.
The streamer said that ”I want him to have an appreciation for the history of how I got to where I am now.”
Height
DrLupo is 6 ft (182 cm) tall.
Trivia
In 2018, he was swatted three times.
In 2019, Benjamin raised over $3.5 million in his live streams to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He said:
”I’m a normal guy who loves to play video games.”
Benjamin continued:
”Because of this amazing community, that passion has grown into something much bigger than just gaming – we are helping save kids’ lives.”
Lupo said for Variety: ”Giving back has been a huge part of who I am on Twitch ever since I started streaming.”
He is best friends with Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins. They are frequently streaming together.
In May 2019, TimTheTatman, Benjamin, andNinja debated whether Epic Games (the developer of Fortnite) should give them protection from stream snipers (aka to follow a person who is streaming). Ninja said: ”These guys won’t ever get banned either unless we go out of our way to tell Epic.”
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DrLupo – Net Worth
So, how much is DrLupo worth?
Benjamin earned most of his wealth from streaming on Twitch and YouTube.
On Twitch, subscribers bring the streamer the most money.
On YouTube, Benjamin made about $600k from ads.
Lupo received money from working for Rogue. When Benjamin signed a new deal with the gaming organization in 2019, he also received equity in ReKTGlobal.
In addition, Lupo has other sponsors, including – Logitech G, Secretlab, NZXT, Kings Coast Coffee, and Blue Microphones.
In January 2019, Benjamin received sponsorship from State Farm, an insurance and financial giant.
He said – ”being given the opportunity to work with State Farm is, without a doubt, huge.”
Therefore, YouTube star DrLupo has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
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