Justin Bailey

Director, SirTech Entertainment Corp. · 1 appearance on the record.

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Justin Bailey previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Double Fine Productions, where he oversaw operations and launched Double Fine Presents. In 2015, he founded Fig, a community investment and crowdfunding platform for video games that was later acquired by Republic.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Justin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Bailey: DayZ Held Steam's Top Holiday Sale Spot Without Discounting
“There's something that's never happened in the history of the Steam sale, which is, it was the holiday side. It was like the Christmas sale. And for the wholesale, they stayed the number one spot.”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:00 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming

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Everything Justin Bailey said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Bailey: Crowdfunding Platforms Organize Existing Communities Rather Than Drive Organic Discovery
“And yet I do think that it is a little bit of a myth that like with crowdfunding, a lot of people think that if you go there you know, with, The, you know, the current platforms that are in place, that organic discovery is fairly large, and we've actually foun…”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:43 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Insight
Bailey: Systemic Games Distort Pricing Expectations For Narrative Games
“And so it almost makes these experiences, content-based game experiences it sets them up to fail, because people are like, oh, well, that should be free, when it takes, like, a crafting of years to get it right.”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:03 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Insight
Bailey: Game Crowdfunding Mirrors 1970s Film Financing Creative Explosion
“If you actually look at what happened about 40 years ago in films, you'll actually see film financing came about then, and the creators were freed from a studio framework, and it's really interesting to see what's actually happening right now with crowdfunding…”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:38 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bailey: Hollywood Film And Blockbuster Game Techniques Fail In VR
“A lot of the same things that actually worked and the same techniques and with Hollywood films and these big blockbuster games, like, they just don't translate over to the VR experience, which you know, I think potentially you'll see a spotlight on things like…”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:15 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Assertion Supported
Bailey: DayZ Held Steam's Top Holiday Sale Spot Without Discounting
“There's something that's never happened in the history of the Steam sale, which is, it was the holiday side. It was like the Christmas sale. And for the wholesale, they stayed the number one spot.”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:00 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Assertion Supported
Bailey: EA Founder Trip Hawkins Copied Music Industry Contracts For Gaming
“Like if you go back to that 40 years ago, that actually was right around the time when EA was being formed. You had Trip Hawkins, and he went out and he found, and this actually ties in the music industry, like, he got the contract from the music industry and …”
Justin Bailey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:44 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming Jan 2, 2019 5m
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