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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Steam comes up
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:35:16 David Rosenthal But I need to give a shout out again to Sea of Stars, which is an indie throwback RPG, which I bought just for me on my Steam Deck, and we were on vacation in Santa Barbara, and she was like, Dad, what are you doing?
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:00:12 David Rosenthal In Google part one, I said I was debating between the Switch two and the Steam Deck.
- ▶ 4:00:18 Ben Gilbert First you got the Steam Deck because you decided your daughter actually wasn't old enough to play video games with you, so you just got the thing for you.
- ▶ 4:00:25 David Rosenthal The update was I went with the Steam Deck for that reason.
- ▶ 4:00:45 David Rosenthal And we were on vacation and I was playing the Steam Deck
- ▶ 4:01:28 David Rosenthal I hand her the Steam Deck
- ▶ 4:02:18 David Rosenthal But unintentionally, the Steam Deck was the gateway drug for my soon-to-be four-year-old daughter.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:03:55 David Rosenthal I bought the Steam Deck.
- ▶ 4:03:56 Ben Gilbert The Steam Deck!
- ▶ 4:03:58 David Rosenthal I bought the Steam Deck.
- ▶ 4:04:22 Ben Gilbert And so if you're buying a console for just you to enjoy, you went with the Steam Deck?
- ▶ 4:04:27 David Rosenthal I was like, I would probably enjoy the Steam Deck more.
- ▶ 4:04:32 David Rosenthal What Valve has done with the Steam Deck, I didn't realize until buying it and using it, is incredible.
- ▶ 4:05:20 David Rosenthal But for now, Steam Deck.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:36:15 David Rosenthal As I was watching reviews on YouTube, I started getting into Steam Deck.
- ▶ 3:36:25 David Rosenthal Do I want to get the Switch too, like I'd been planning, or do I want to go in a totally different direction and get a Steam Deck?
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 17:58 Mitch Lasky Really, the rise of steam would be kind of indicative of that particular part of it.
- ▶ 20:50 Blake Robbins I think Grand Theft Auto V was probably released eight or nine years ago, and it still is a top game on Steam, and everyone still plays it, which is amazing, but when they do an update, it's, it's to the new generations, and it really…
- ▶ 21:44 Mitch Lasky And I think you look at steam and steam shares many of those attributes.
- ▶ 22:37 Ben Gilbert The craziest thing is Steam was on a disk.
- ▶ 24:53 Ben Gilbert Can you share how Steam got started?
- ▶ 26:28 Ben Gilbert And is that Steam itself is an eight billion dollar or Valve all up?
- ▶ 27:10 Blake Robbins They all have launchers, and they all are still forced, uh, well, not forced, but really pushed by the market to launch on Steam as well.
- ▶ 27:18 Mitch Lasky We had breakfast with Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft Games, yesterday, and we were talking about Steam, and Phil was like, I put my games on Steam.
- ▶ 27:34 Mitch Lasky He's putting games on Steam, and so you fish where the fish are.
- ▶ 27:55 Blake Robbins And from my vantage point, it hasn't made nearly enough, like a dent, like relative to Steam.
- ▶ 28:23 David Rosenthal No, the gaming is like, you know, you've got Steam, you've got obviously the consoles, you've got Microsoft, um, and Epic is trying, but
- ▶ 30:59 Mitch Lasky And so, uh, you know, with a device like a Steam Deck or something like that, you know, you're, you're able to really avoid going down that path of building your own, uh, gaming PC.
- ▶ 34:40 Blake Robbins You have Teamfight Tactics through their launcher and you have Valorant through their launcher, and those have worked exceptionally well, and it, it really begs the question if you're a game today that is just launching on Steam and you're…
- ▶ 45:57 Ben Gilbert And is not Steam, is not Tencent.
- ▶ 47:40 Blake Robbins Even, even just saying, I'm going to launch my game on Steam as a new company, maybe is, is, is just showing your ambition of what you want to build.
- ▶ 55:03 Mitch Lasky 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?
- ▶ 55:21 Mitch Lasky oh, then we're going to go make another game and put it on Steam or put it in the App Store.
- ▶ 1:03:31 Mitch Lasky And the, and it gets you out of the, the, the kind of, you know, junk pile of throw a game up on Steam and pray, right?
- ▶ 1:34:20 Blake Robbins You look at a game like Counter-Strike, and a lot of people don't look at Steam and view it like an OpenSea or one of these marketplaces, but in, in Team Fortress II and in Counter-Strike, they introduce these virtual goods, and they're…
- ▶ 1:34:47 Blake Robbins And in the public market that is hosted on Steam, where they take, I think it's 10%, ah, they are double dipping and triple dipping on the content that they primary issued, and they're getting all the secondary sale of just recycling…
- ▶ 1:35:18 Blake Robbins Like you can, people use these accounts, people spin up Steam accounts as escrow services, and like they're bots, and you know, they're sites that just literally will transact for US dollars,