esports

“But you're seeing things like eSports increasing 20 to 30% per year in viewership and engagement, and you have this amazing demographic of 14 to 24 to 34 year olds who are just starting to change viewing habits in a pretty fundamental way.”

“I just think that the intersection of VR and e-sports is still maybe say three to four years off.”

“I don't think that Riot Games and Valve are And Activision Blizzard were really conscious that esports was something that was growing so big over the last five to 10 years.”

“And I think that that demographic is going to supplant some traditional sports. And I think some are going to survive. I think, for instance, basketball and soccer are two very healthy international sports that are going to do very well.”

“There's a new game that's a relatively new game that's come on the scene called Hearthstone, which is by Blizzard. And that's become a really interesting eSport because it's a card-based game. It's not a fast Twitch game, meaning you don't need 250 actions per…”

“The biggest challenge right now is that the longevity of an esports player is not very long. So meaning that the careers of these players are just a couple of years because a lot of the, at the Very highest. And, you know, you have people who could do, you kno…”

“What'll make this industry really take off is that you need the longevity of the players to be in the five, ideally 10 year long sort of time frame, because people love, you know, having a favorite athlete, right? Like if you're a huge LeBron fan, or if you're…”

“As far as a VC, interpreting the question is sort of where do we think the most equity value will be where will the biggest companies be formed? I think it is around the technology around enabling esports to become on par with traditional sports, and so all th…”

“I don't just for a lot of reasons, I mean, I think until they solve the television problem, it's going to be very, very difficult. You know, so much of our experience of, I don't want to call them real sports, but of traditional sports is, is mediated by 2030,…”

“I do. Based on the underlying data today and how accessible it is to people, I do believe it will be larger, certainly, than the NFL.”

“Overhyped, I think, has been esports and VR, too, but definitely esports.”

“I do think we will, and I think it'll be, it might look a little bit different, so it may not look as hardcore.”