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Insight
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…”
Mitch Lasky Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 54:57 Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
Opinion
Robbins: Epic Games Store has failed to make a meaningful dent in Steam
“And from my vantage point, it hasn't made nearly enough, like a dent, like relative to Steam.”
Blake Robbins Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 27:55 Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
Insight
Lasky: Platform publishers dominate gaming by aggregating demand to leverage supply
“Where you aggregate demand On an online platform, and then you utilize that demand to leverage the supply side of the, of whatever industry that you're entering. And I think you look at steam and steam shares many of those attributes. And I think that move, wh…”
Mitch Lasky Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 21:31 Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lasky: Valve generates eight billion dollars in annual revenue
“I mean, now it's an eight billion dollar a year business, right?”
Mitch Lasky Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 26:22 Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
Insight
Robbins: Major publishers are pushed by the market to sell on Steam
“They all have launchers, and they all are still forced well, not forced, but really pushed by the market to launch on Steam as well.”
Blake Robbins Apr 26, 2023 ▶ 27:10 Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
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