Question: Facts:   - known for: founder of fanatics sports tours    - birth name: warren livingstone      - birth date: 1973    - name: warren livingstone    - nationality: australian    - birth place: sydney , australia    - boards: fanatics balmain rugby club sydney stars   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of warren livingstone .
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warren livingstone -lrb- born 1973 in sydney -rrb- is an australian businessman .he is the founder and managing director of the sports-tourism group fanatics , and the president of balmain rugby club .livingstone started out a copy boy for sydney 's daily telegraph newspaper , but founded the fanatics in 1997 to cater for sports fans that follow australian teams and athletes around the world .as of 2014 , the fanatics has over 50,000 members and has organised travel for more than 45,000 fans to sporting events including cricket , football , rugby league and rugby union matches , and also major tennis tournaments .in 2004 he re-established the balmain rugby club -lrb- first formed in 1873 but folded in 1919 -rrb- and bankrolled the club with a roster of hiigh-profile players including wallabies drew mitchell , matt giteau , ryan cross , matt dunning and french star sebastian chabal .livingstone formed a joint venture between balmain and the sydney university club in 2014 to enter the sydney stars team in australia 's inaugural national rugby championship .