gaming

6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Feb 20, 2015 by Frank Meehan · across every show →

Everything said about gaming, oldest first

Feb 20, 2015 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frank Meehan: Asian tech market expanding into deep tech and smart cities
“It's, the future of the Asian tech market is, is huge. Initially, it's going to be driven around e-commerce and gaming, but already you can see deeper tech and particularly internet of things, smart cities”
Frank Meehan Feb 20, 2015 ▶ 17:28 20 VC 013: Frank Meehan Series A, Spark Labs and The Future of The Asian Tech Market
Mar 9, 2015 negative
Disclosure
Passion Capital avoids gaming investments due to their hit-driven nature
“We tend not to do any games, gaming investments simply because we Just don't understand the segment, and it's a bit too hit-driven in our view”
Stefan Glaenzer Mar 9, 2015 ▶ 13:16 20 VC 018: Seed Stage Investing with Stefan Glaenzer of Passion Capital
Nov 29, 2021
Disclosure
Foroughi: AppLovin entered mobile gaming to cost-effectively acquire first-party data
“And that's what took us into gaming, because it was really at the time a very cost-effective means to go scale a business that could get us that first-party data access, and then we can execute the rest of the vision off of it.”
Adam Foroughi Nov 29, 2021 ▶ 10:22 20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
Jun 26, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Babayigit: Gaming is larger than the movie and film industries combined
“There's a lot of things you'd listen to around saying, like, gaming is bigger than movies and films combined, right? That's a very real thing.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:21:40 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 17, 2024 positive
Insight
Zhang: The best product managers have spent time in gaming
“I think the best PMs actually have done some stint in gaming, right?”
Jiaona Zhang May 17, 2024 ▶ 2:22 Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 25, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Jason Citron admits Discord's non-gaming expansion led to strategic dead ends
“Over a few years sort of following that realized that we kind of went down some dead ends a little bit and that people were not resonating as much with some of the features we were building. So we kind of pulled it back in to refocus on gaming this year.”
Jason Citron Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 10:55 Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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