Gaming

topic on 18 shows · 37 statements across 35 episodes

the Y Combinator Startup Podcast the Pitch Another Podcast Innovators & Investors We Live to Build the Knowledge Project Lenny's Podcast My First Million the Neon Show No Priors the Official SaaStr Podcast the Startup Ideas Podcast Invest Like the Best Capital Allocators the a16z Podcast All-In TBPN 20VC

37 statements about Gaming, every show

INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Contradicted
Tripathi: Video gaming is bigger than movies, music, and books combined
“Because gaming is bigger than movies, music, books combined.”
Amish Tripathi Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 33:27 S2E8: Indian Mythology x Gaming: The Age of Bhaarat ft. Amish Tripathi & Mukul Deora
Hastings: Netflix Is Developing TV Games Controlled by Mobile Phones
“We've got some cool stuff going on the TV where your phone is the remote control, which has you know, higher latency, but it's easy for party mode type games.”
Reed Hastings Jan 6, 2026 ▶ 42:38 The Netflix Culture Code That Changed Entertainment Forever | Reed Hastings Interview · Invest Like The Best
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Open · timeframe Nov 2025
Gupta: Mangalore Has Established Its Own Gaming-Focused Venture Capital Firm
“And the cream on the cake was when I heard that Mangalore has set up her own VC for a gaming you know, segment.”
Sanjeev Gupta Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 28:52 Karnataka's Billion Dollar Playbook ft. Sanjeev Gupta
TBPN Insight
Nadella: Gaming's real competition is short-form video, not other games
“After all, the gaming's competition is not other gaming. Gaming's competition is short form video.”
Satya Nadella Oct 28, 2025 ▶ 24:12 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: Decreasing IP value will hurt traditional studios while gaming wins
“I think the value of patents and by extension, IP and copyrights are going to go away. And in that, there's going to be a spectrum where certain content IP holders lose and other ones win. I think gaming is on the winning side, to be honest, and I think conten…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 5:31 Biggest LBO Ever, SPAC 2.0, Open Source AI Models, State AI Regulation Frenzy
THE PITCH Insight
Dicko: Virtual reality has not found a killer use case outside gaming
“Very, very clearly, virtual reality is looking for its killer use case. It's found one in the gaming and is still looking for any other killer use case out there.”
David Dicko Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:07 #4 Skylights
NEON SHOW Opinion
Garg: Regulatory crackdowns on crypto and gaming pushed Indian founders abroad
“The way we dealt with cryptocurrencies, the way we dealt with gaming, these guys were making money here by change in law, the reporting requirement, compliance requirements, etc. They can no longer sort of increase Or grow their businesses in the country. So t…”
Subhash Chandra Garg Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 1:09:08 India's Road To $10 Trillion Economy With Subhash Garg, Former Secretary Of Economic Affairs
20VC Disclosure
Jason Citron admits Discord's non-gaming expansion led to strategic dead ends
“Over a few years sort of following that realized that we kind of went down some dead ends a little bit and that people were not resonating as much with some of the features we were building. So we kind of pulled it back in to refocus on gaming this year.”
Jason Citron Nov 25, 2024 ▶ 10:55 Jason Citron, Co-Founder/CEO @Discord: The Untold Story Behind Scaling to 200M Users | E1230 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Guo: User-made AI game expansions will be a big deal
“Like, AI-based expansions to worlds or mechanisms they love, even beyond the publisher, I think will be a big deal.”
Sarah Guo Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 7:59 No Priors Ep. 86 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
NEON SHOW Prediction Held up
Malhi: AI will soon generate game mechanics and games from text
“It's not gonna be very far away from text. You can create game mechanics and actual games.”
Dilsher Malhi Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 33:07 Real Money Gaming Business Explained By Zupee Founder Dilsher Malhi | Neon Show
a16z Assertion Supported
Jason Citron: Gaming is larger than music and movies combined
“Today in, in, in, 24, gaming is the largest form of entertainment. Bigger than music and movies combined.”
Jason Citrin Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 4:00 How Discord Became a Developer Platform
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Supported
Nicolas Cole: The gender split in gaming is now roughly fifty-fifty
“One of the growing trends in gaming is that more and more women are coming into the category. So it used to be, or at least the perception was, like, eighty-twenty, you know... And but now it's like fifty-fifty.”
Nicolas Cole May 22, 2024 ▶ 17:10 3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid (steal these $300k/month ideas)
20VC Insight
Zhang: The best product managers have spent time in gaming
“I think the best PMs actually have done some stint in gaming, right?”
Jiaona Zhang May 17, 2024 ▶ 2:22 Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Contradicted
Heitzmann: The gaming industry was twice the size of movies in 2005
“People didn't realize that gaming was twice the size of motion pictures, even in 2005”
Rick Heitzman Nov 13, 2023 ▶ 51:21 Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
Puri: Early degenerate obsessions are the strongest startup hiring signal
“We noticed that the people who were the best earlier in their life had a degenerate, like, obsession with something that wasn't, like, The thing your parents would reward you for where the school would reward you for. So for a lot of people was gaming. It's li…”
Shaan Puri Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 1:00:30 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)
NO PRIORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gandhi: Gaming is the leading industry scaling multimodal AI adoption
“I think gaming is a really good industry, which is kind of scaling out multimodality. And we have a lot of customers who are using that.”
Kawal Gandhi Oct 19, 2023 ▶ 14:40 No Priors Ep. 37 | With Kawal Gandhi
20VC Assertion Supported
Babayigit: Gaming is larger than the movie and film industries combined
“There's a lot of things you'd listen to around saying, like, gaming is bigger than movies and films combined, right? That's a very real thing.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:21:40 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Insight
Andreessen: Tech's suitability for gaming predicts broad future utility
“I've always been a proponent of, like, look, it's a huge plus for a technology when it is so easy to use that you can basically have fun with it right? Like, it, like, it spoke very well for the computer that you could actually use it to play games right? Beca…”
Marc Andreessen Jun 10, 2023 ▶ 16:52 AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
SAASTR Insight
Monroy: Products do not need to be painkillers to generate big revenue
“Not every product must be a painkiller to be successful. Candy sells really well. A good example of this is gaming, right? Video games, mobile games on your phone. That's candy, right? It's giving you a quick dopamine hit. Like, you can make a lot of money sel…”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 9:33 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Cole: Gaming background primes entrepreneurs for pain tolerance and strategy
“It's like the background in gaming clearly primes your brain for certain skills, for certain ways of thinking, for a certain threshold of pain, for strategy, for learning rules, then bending rules. You know, it's like video games prime all of that.”
Nicolas Cole Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 4:42 Why a Gamer Mindset Can Change Your Life and Business with Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush
Hoover: Consumer social and gaming startups have the highest failure rates
“I think like consumer social or gaming, like games, building games, probably like the hardest and the one filled with the most failures.”
Ryan Hoover Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 48:54 How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ohanian: 90% of gamers will only play games that pay them
“In five years, no one, 90% of people will not play a game unless they are being properly valued for that time.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:56 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
20VC Disclosure
Foroughi: AppLovin entered mobile gaming to cost-effectively acquire first-party data
“And that's what took us into gaming, because it was really at the time a very cost-effective means to go scale a business that could get us that first-party data access, and then we can execute the rest of the vision off of it.”
Adam Foroughi Nov 29, 2021 ▶ 10:22 20VC: AppLovin's Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Foroughi on How AppLovin Might Be The Venture Capital Industry's Biggest Miss, How To Run a 1,000+ Organisation with Very Few Meetings & Balancing the Demands of Wall St with Long Term, Sustainable Growth
Singh: The real utility for NFTs is in gaming, not art
“And I think that applicability is not actually an art, but I think it's in gaming.”
Savneet Singh Nov 1, 2021 ▶ 45:26 Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
Puri: Lucrative boutique conference business model can be replicated in any industry
“I think by the way, this is a thing anybody can replicate. Not just in crypto. Ok, this is like, let's say, I'll call this a home run. And it's in crypto. But I think there's a lot of people listening to this that would be happy with, you know, half or a third…”
Shaan Puri Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 44:37 How to Make Billions with a DTC Niche Clothing Line | My First Million #219
Benatar: Violent games reduce real-world aggression by acting as emotional catharsis
“I think the opposite. You can have a lot of aggression in games, but then when you live your life, you have less aggression in you. Because you just took all of it on the game. So gaming is also like small aggressions going out, and then you are way more calm …”
Shlomi Benatar Jul 13, 2021 ▶ 24:05 The $180B Industry Bigger Than Hollywood Nobody Talks About
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Supported
Weisbrot: Crime rates have declined since the advent of gaming
“And in reality, what we've seen is a decline in crime rates since the advent of gaming.”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 13, 2021 ▶ 25:10 The $180B Industry Bigger Than Hollywood Nobody Talks About
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cowan-Brown: Gaming Will Become Universal, but VR Will Not
“I have a sense that gaming is going to become universal, and I'll chat about that in a second, but I don't see VR becoming a universal thing.”
Toni Cowan-Brown Jan 24, 2021 ▶ 13:42 Why do we care about games?
Esther Wojcicki: Kids Must Code One Hour for Every Gaming Hour
“My theory with gaming is for every hour that you game, you should spend an hour coding games.”
Esther Wojcicki Mar 17, 2020 ▶ 21:39 #79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chou: Blockchain will drive an economic revolution in gaming
“Now, blockchain technology, I believe, will open up the next major chapter in gaming, and it's not going to be a computing revolution. It will be an economic revolution.”
Kevin Chou Mar 9, 2020 ▶ 9:03 Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Simpson predicts gaming will drive blockchain adoption like mobile and cloud
“Gaming has really led the way in terms of technology development for many of the past, ah, important waves in technology. So anything from social to mobile to cloud, and, ah, I think blockchain is the next wave of that.”
Arianna Simpson Aug 29, 2019 ▶ 13:29 Decentralized Applications: What's Now, What's Next
a16z Prediction Didn’t hold up
Chen: Gaming will be the primary entertainment medium for new adults
“You're gonna start getting you know, a really interesting group of adults who, ah, they, their primary form of entertainment by hours through their, the, you know, all of growing up, all of, you know, getting into their twenties is gonna be gaming, not all, al…”
Andrew Chen Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 9:25 What's Next for Esports Startups
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kulikin: Gaming is becoming a permanent generational cultural category
“Gaming and I guess eSports, but probably like gaming more specifically, is it's now entering that like pantheon of cultural like areas. That are now going to exist like generation over generation over generation.”
Darcy Kulikin Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 34:50 What's Next for Esports Startups
a16z Insight
Xie: New technologies often find their first major traction through gaming
“Sometimes in new technology, you'll often see that the first things that really take off are things along gaming or toys.”
Linda Xie May 5, 2018 ▶ 13:38 An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Xie (2018): DEXs and digital collectibles will go mainstream within three years
“Yeah, the two ones that I think will go mainstream are decentralized exchange and probably gaming, something along the lines of collectibles.”
Linda Xie May 2, 2018 ▶ 4:43 Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator
20VC Disclosure
Passion Capital avoids gaming investments due to their hit-driven nature
“We tend not to do any games, gaming investments simply because we Just don't understand the segment, and it's a bit too hit-driven in our view”
Stefan Glaenzer Mar 9, 2015 ▶ 13:16 20 VC 018: Seed Stage Investing with Stefan Glaenzer of Passion Capital
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Frank Meehan: Asian tech market expanding into deep tech and smart cities
“It's, the future of the Asian tech market is, is huge. Initially, it's going to be driven around e-commerce and gaming, but already you can see deeper tech and particularly internet of things, smart cities”
Frank Meehan Feb 20, 2015 ▶ 17:28 20 VC 013: Frank Meehan Series A, Spark Labs and The Future of The Asian Tech Market

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