Bailey: Game Crowdfunding Mirrors 1970s Film Financing Creative Explosion
Justin Bailey · a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:38
Justin Bailey is the founder and CEO of Fig, a crowdfunding platform for video games. He compares alternative game financing to historical shifts in Hollywood film financing.
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“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 and other funding sources in games because it's creating those same dynamics that, you know, led to basically a creative explosion.”
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