Kulikin: Esports has a blank slate advantage over traditional sports
Darcy Kulikin · What's Next for Esports Startups · Jun 7, 2019 · at 15:41
Darcy Kulikin of a16z contrasts traditional sports suffering from innovator's dilemma with esports' ability to design new audience consumption models from scratch.
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“E-sports and gaming just has such a huge advantage because they're coming from a blank slate, right? And they're coming from an audience that, that they can define how that consumption happens.”
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