Mitch Lasky
12 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2022 by David Rosenthal · said 38 times in 6 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 33 mentions in 2 episodes 17 per episode
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Sep 28, 2022
Peter Fenton is Benchmark's only remaining active 'Fab Four' GP
“2018, they do fun nine. Matt and Mitch step back at that point. Bill sticks around for one more fun cycle. And then of course, you know, probably everybody knows at this point, certainly if you're still listening at this point, Bill has stepped back now at thi…”
Apr 26, 2023 neutral
Lasky: Packaged-goods video games required planned obsolescence to sustain business
“In the packaged goods era, your goal was to sell a disc and then get somebody to come back a year later and buy another disc, and that's a business model choice, and therefore what you're going to put on that disc is going to be informed by that business model…”
Apr 26, 2023 negative
Lasky: Pushing Discord to build a game store was my failure
“It's like we tried this at Discord. Right? And we tried to start a game store. This was obviously my failure, because I pushed them very hard toward becoming a platform-based publisher, because I thought, hey man, this is a great way to leverage this audience.”
Apr 26, 2023 bearish
Lasky: AI will not easily generate complete, satisfying video games from prompts
“There's a train of thought that, that has been advanced that, oh wow, this is really going to democratize the game industry in, in a way where now, kind of like you're seeing with mid journey, for example, where you can just describe a piece of art and it magi…”
Apr 26, 2023 bearish
Lasky: Traditional sports owners who bought franchised esports teams hold dead assets
“I spent five years talking those owners, like the existing sports owners who had terrible FOMO from like dumping money into these things, and some of them took my advice, and some of them didn't, and ended up in, you know, with some really dead assets. But tha…”
Apr 26, 2023 positive
Lasky: A Chinese team winning Worlds created $150M revenue for Riot Games
“I mean, when the Chinese team won Worlds, the Riot guys were like throwing confetti because like when the Chinese win, it's like a hundred and fifty million dollar revenue opportunity in terms of increased, like, you know, unexpected sales of skins.”
Apr 26, 2023 positive
Lasky: Nintendo engineered artificial Black Friday scarcity to create retail panic
“They were very clever about only releasing a limited amount of inventory for Black Friday, and then the parents would go because that was on the kids Christmas list, and they would go to buy the disc and it, and they would be sold out and panic would ensue. An…”
Apr 26, 2023 bearish
Apr 26, 2023 negative
Lasky: Gaming VCs must back durable platforms, not sequential game studios
“I invest in businesses, not in studios. Right? And the, and those businesses have to have a strategy that transcends, I want to make a game and put it on Steam, or I want to make a mobile game and put it in the App Store, right? And I'm really interested in th…”
Apr 26, 2023 neutral
Robbins: 100 Thieves built esports primarily as marketing for content and apparel
“No, I think, I actually think if you like for a hundred thieves, you know, which is an e-sports organization that has three pillars of it, which is, you know, content and immediate side. It has an apparel side, which is also a thriving business and then the e-…”
Apr 26, 2023 neutral
Apr 26, 2023 negative
Lasky: Startups should never launch games on consoles before finding product-market fit
“I would not counsel any of my portfolio companies to launch on the console because the hoops that you have to jump through for approvals, for manufacturing, et cetera, for just in general are dire, and they're not the kind of thing that I would sort of put in …”