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Case dossier Lifestyle & Retail · 2025

TYSON 2.0

Where a champion's legacy finds its European home.

A full launch team for Mike Tyson's Amsterdam flagship

01The Brief

The champion called us.

TYSON 2.0 — the lifestyle brand of world champion Mike Tyson — came to The Quantum Club to build its European home: a flagship coffeeshop and fan store in the heart of Amsterdam. They reached out to us, having heard what the Club does for the brands it stands beside. The brief was simple and enormous at once: assemble the team that could open the doors and carry the TYSON legacy into Europe.

02The Search

A legacy you can't hire generically.

This was never a standard retail build. TYSON is a name that carries weight — a legend to protect while you scale it. Every hire had to match the exact DNA of the brand: the wavelength, the discipline, the respect for what the name means. The open market doesn't sort for that. We do.

TYSON 2.0 — the champion fronting the Bite Club loyalty campaign
Amsterdam
flagship coffeeshop & fan store
03The Placement

A full launch team, on the champion's wavelength.

The Quantum Club sourced and placed the people who could carry it — a Finance Director, a Head of Operations, a Marketing Manager and the specialist roles around them. Found discreetly, matched precisely, and built to open the flagship and hold the standard from day one.

04The Outcome

Still standing. Still scaling.

The team we placed is still there today — running the Amsterdam flagship and carrying the TYSON legacy across Europe. The story tells itself: a world champion's brand came to The Quantum Club, and what we built for them stayed built. That is the whole point of standing beside a legacy — you don't just fill roles, you protect a name.

The Quantum Club helped us set up a full team from the ground up when we came to Amsterdam. We could not have asked for more.
Mike Tyson · Founder, TYSON 2.0

The engagement

The full brief.

TYSON 2.0 came to The Quantum Club to build its European launch — a flagship Amsterdam coffeeshop and fan store for Mike Tyson's lifestyle brand. We sourced and placed the full launch team, matched to the exact DNA of the brand: leaders and operators still in place today, scaling the legacy across Europe.

The mandate

Functions
Finance, operations & marketing leadership
Seniority
Leadership & specialist
Geographies
Amsterdam · Europe
Engaged
2025

Roles placed

  • Finance Director
  • Head of Operations
  • Marketing Manager
  • Specialist hires

The approach

Discreet, DNA-matched search — operators who could carry a world champion's legacy into a new market and hold its standard.

Verified outcomes

  • Full launch team, still in place today
  • Amsterdam flagship coffeeshop & fan store
  • Europe scaling the TYSON legacy

The vault

The full breakdown is reserved.

The exact roles, the search process, the compensation context, and the unreleased footage from TYSON 2.0 live inside the Club — the rooms the open market never lists.

Verified members only

The houses our members move between

  • Prada — Creative & merchandising, 4 placements
  • Apple — Product & design, 3 placements
  • Cartier — Maison leadership, 2 placements
  • Louis Vuitton — Creative leadership, 5 placements
  • Netflix — Content & product, 2 placements
  • Rolex — Horology & retail, 2 placements
  • Chanel — Maison leadership, 3 placements
  • Google — Product & growth, 3 placements
  • Van Cleef & Arpels — Haute joaillerie, 2 placements
  • Dior — Creative leadership, 4 placements
  • Tesla — Engineering & operations, 2 placements
  • Audemars Piguet — Horology leadership, 2 placements
  • Gucci — Creative leadership, 3 placements
  • ASML — Deep-tech engineering, 2 placements
  • Hermès — Métiers & retail, 2 placements
  • Saint Laurent — Creative leadership, 2 placements
  • Bottega Veneta — Creative & leather goods, 2 placements
  • A. Lange & Söhne — Haute horlogerie, 2 placements
  • Burberry — Creative & retail, 2 placements
  • Balenciaga — Creative leadership, 2 placements
  • Richemont — Group leadership, 2 placements
  • Loewe — Creative leadership, 2 placements
  • Nike — Brand & product, 3 placements

Frequently asked

How did The Quantum Club help TYSON 2.0?

TYSON 2.0 approached The Quantum Club to build the launch team for its European home — a flagship coffeeshop and fan store in Amsterdam for Mike Tyson's lifestyle brand. The Quantum Club sourced and placed a full leadership and operations team — Finance Director, Head of Operations, Marketing Manager and specialist roles — matched to the exact DNA of the brand. That team is still in place today, scaling the TYSON legacy across Europe.

What is TYSON 2.0?

TYSON 2.0 is the lifestyle brand of boxing legend Mike Tyson, with an Amsterdam flagship — a coffeeshop and fan store — as its European home, carrying the TYSON name and legacy into new markets.

What roles did The Quantum Club place for TYSON 2.0?

A full launch team, including a Finance Director, Head of Operations and Marketing Manager, plus specialist hires — sourced from scratch and still in place today, running the Amsterdam flagship and scaling across Europe.

Why did TYSON 2.0 choose The Quantum Club?

TYSON 2.0 reached out to The Quantum Club directly, having heard the Club does exceptional work. For a legacy brand carrying a world champion's name, the priority was finding people on the exact wavelength of the brand — talent The Quantum Club sources discreetly, off the open market.

Where is TYSON 2.0 based?

TYSON 2.0's European home is a flagship coffeeshop and fan store in the heart of Amsterdam, from which the brand scales across Europe.

Is the TYSON 2.0 launch team still in place?

Yes — the launch team The Quantum Club sourced and placed is still in place today, running the Amsterdam flagship and scaling the TYSON legacy across Europe.