Troy Kirwin

Investing Partner, a16z Games · 1 appearance on the record.

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At a16z, Kirwin focuses on early-stage investments across gaming, 3D creation tools, and generative AI, co-leading investments in companies like Backflip and Hedra. Prior to venture capital, he worked in corporate strategy and development at Unity and in TMT investment banking at Jefferies.

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

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Prediction Held up
Kirwin: Future Pandemic and Immigration Policies Will Be Tested in Multi-Agent Virtual Simulations
“Well, when you have a multi-agent simulation, when we think about the next pandemic response or, you know, immigration policies and how those impact a civilization we're gonna be testing these in a virtual environment with these agents who can interact with ea…”
Troy Kirwin Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 10:30 Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future

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

Prediction Held up
Kirwin: Future Pandemic and Immigration Policies Will Be Tested in Multi-Agent Virtual Simulations
“Well, when you have a multi-agent simulation, when we think about the next pandemic response or, you know, immigration policies and how those impact a civilization we're gonna be testing these in a virtual environment with these agents who can interact with ea…”
Troy Kirwin Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 10:30 Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kirwin: Interactive 3D and Gaming Will Define Enterprise Tech in the 2020s
“The nineties was about text on the internet. The 2000 was about images. The 20 tens was about video, and we feel pretty strongly that the 20 twenties is going to be about interactive three D and gaming technology being used in the enterprise.”
Troy Kirwin Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future
Assertion Partly supported
Kirwin: Rivian heads-up displays run on Unreal Engine, BMW on Unity
“And now the sort of, you know, heads up displays that you see in, you know, Rivian is powered by unreal. BMWs is powered by unity.”
Troy Kirwin Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 4:07 Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kirwin: Over Half of Game Studio Budgets Go Toward 3D Asset Creation
“Within a game studio, you know, more than half of the spend goes towards creation of the assets and the arts and the content that goes into these virtual simulations.”
Troy Kirwin Dec 25, 2024 ▶ 4:34 Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business: How Games Power the Future Dec 25, 2024 10m
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