Unity Technologies
also referred to as: unity · unity 3d
19 statements across 6 episodes · 9 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2016 by David Helgason · said 136 times in 22 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (109), David Helgason (9), Randy Glein (4), Garry Tan (1), Christian Lanng (1), Adam Foroughi (1)
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 37 mentions in 2 episodes 19 per episode
- 20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
- 20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 91 mentions in 15 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- 20VC: Guild Education's Rachel Carlson on The Benefits of Scaling Startups Outside of Silicon Valley, Why Mission and Margin Are So Tightly Integrated & Why Mums Are The Most Under-Utilised Asset In The Economy
- 20VC: Mercury Founder Immad Akhund on Why Angel Investing Makes Founders Better Operators, The Right Way For Founders To Discuss and Present Competition To Investors & How To Think About Your Initial Wedge Into The Market and How It Expands Over Time
- 20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- 20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- 20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your Board
- 20VC: Why Startup Valuations Are Not As Overpriced As You Think, How To Determine Whether An Investor Is Truly Aligned To Your Mission and What 2 Traits Make The Truly Special Board Members with Jason Brown, Founder & CEO @ Tally
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2017 4 mentions in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Unity Technologies, oldest first
Jul 22, 2016
Helgason: User-friendly platforms win through high volume at low price
“If you have a user-friendly platform, and everything else in your industry is really not user-friendly, you could maybe, instead of, You know, selling it a few times for a lot of money. You could sell it for a little bit of money a lot of times.”
Jul 22, 2016 positive
Jul 22, 2016
Helgason: People naturally create the media they consumed during childhood
“People are attracted to Creating the kind of media that they consumed as children, and we'd all played games, and it seemed logical that there would be some, I don't know, he, well, he felt that there would be kind of a, an explosion of small game developers, …”
Jul 22, 2016
Jul 22, 2016
Helgason: I will almost certainly never start another company as founder
“As a founder, almost certainly not. Plus Unity keeps me busy. It's just like, it's sort of a Big B stuff of interesting projects and innovation and teams and brilliant people that it sort of keeps me occupied. No, it's hard. It's hard for me to imagine that I …”
Jul 22, 2016
Helgason: Unity was the only major game engine on mobile early on
“And for various reasons, nobody else really cared about it for a while. So we were kind of the only player there for quite a while. Of course, you know, because all the money was in console gaming, which is a very different everything actually.”
Jul 22, 2016
Helgason: Unity rejected acquisition offers that misaligned with its core mission
“There was a couple of times when we could have probably made some money, but you know, the acquirer was clearly not aligned with that idea. Not because they're bad people, just because they're completely different interests. And in that case, it was very easy …”
Jul 22, 2016 neutral
Helgason: Unity originally copied Macromedia's $1,000 per user software pricing model
“We picked the macromedia business model, which, you know, is sort of, like, morphed into the Adobe business model, which was, you know, professional software, roughly a thousand bucks per user, and then you might sort of upgrade once every few years.”
Dec 14, 2016 bullish
Feb 8, 2017 bullish
Feb 8, 2017 bullish
Jul 5, 2017 positive
Schuler: DFJ Growth preemptively invested in Giphy when it wasn't fundraising
“Well, the most recent one, we did two toward the end of the year. One was unity and the second was Giphy, and Giphy, I had to get them to say yes. They actually weren't raising money, and one of the ways we like to operate is being a little preemptive, and we …”
Oct 26, 2020 positive
Sequoia Led Unity's Series A and Persuaded Them to Adopt Freemium
“One of the first decisions was to go change the business model of the company because the company had bootstrapped until that we were the Series A investor in the company in They never had outside capital, they didn't have a board, and so they always charged f…”
Oct 29, 2020 positive
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 positive