Tripathi: Video gaming is bigger than movies, music, and books combined
“Because gaming is bigger than movies, music, books combined.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Zhang: The best product managers have spent time in gaming
“I think the best PMs actually have done some stint in gaming, right?”
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”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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 …”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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”