John Riccitiello
Co-owner & Investor, Gratz Pilates. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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John Riccitiello is an American business executive best known for leading Electronic Arts as CEO and subsequently steering Unity Technologies through its 2020 IPO until stepping down in 2023. Earlier in his career, he co-founded the private equity firm Elevation Partners, and in 2024, he became a co-owner of the equipment maker Gratz Pilates.
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23statements
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63%fully supported
Everything John Riccitiello said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
John Riccitiello: Global gamers outnumber regular TV watchers and music listeners
“There are more players in the world than there are TV watchers or music, music listeners on a regular basis.”
Riccitiello: Video game streaming will rival television in audience size
“It is a massive medium and it's a medium that Is an in and of itself in time will rival television, which is completely crazy from any historical perspective.”
Riccitiello: Esports economics differ from traditional sports because publishers own the IP
“Ultimately the economics of e-sports is different because it's not an aggregation of teams that make the league. It's the league that owns the teams. Completely different. And in this case, the league is Activision, Electronic Arts, Riot, Take Two, Bethesda, a…”
Riccitiello: Game distribution will move away from captive stores like Steam
“The app store model where you pay to download something runs directly into conflict with the notion we talked about earlier, which is those multi-platform games. So the, You know, the idea that a game would be everywhere as opposed to captive on an individual …”
Riccitiello: Gaming cannot rely exclusively on streaming due to latency constraints
“The gaming industry can't do Streaming exclusively as easily as they can in the movie industry or the music industry because you can't compress it to the same degree and because latency is a controlling factor.”
Riccitiello: Viewers will walk inside 3D movie scenes within three years
“I am certain within the next two to three years, you'll be able to freeze the frame put on a set of VR or AR glasses or look through your phone and walk into the scene and go anywhere.”
John Riccitiello: Global video game players easily exceed three billion
“It's actually a lot larger that some of that excludes a big chunk of China and India and a couple of the markets. Easily north of three billion.”
John Riccitiello: Gaming revenue now exceeds TV and music combined
“At least when I got in the industry, it was much smaller than either music or TV, and now it's larger than the combination of the two.”
John Riccitiello: Real-time gaming tech is the future of film production
“It's the future for how films are going to be made. It's the future for so many other industries.”
Riccitiello: Unity powers over half of games and two-thirds of AR/VR
“Five years ago, 80% plus of the games that were built were built using tools created by the publisher. That's not true any longer. Unity by itself has got over half of all games, two-thirds of all AR, VR is built in Unity and so the self-made tools from the pu…”
Riccitiello: Tencent's gaming and social network hybrid is the West's future
“Tencent created, I think, some weird admixture of If Netflix was a gaming platform and you were to marry it to a social network, then that's what you have in China. And that may be the future in some significant way in the West.”
Riccitiello: Cross-platform gaming connects high spenders with massive scale
“And when you combine those audiences, you get the people that pay the most to participate together with the largest possible audience.”
Riccitiello: Car and Driver couldn't distinguish Unity-rendered BMWs from real cars
“BMW sent that on to Car and Driver and asked their writers and their readers to try to figure out which was the real car and which was the drawn car, the animated car, the one created in Unity, and they couldn't tell. By the way, no one can.”
Riccitiello: Real-time CGI will seamlessly blend synthetic actors and real elements
“And so we're reaching a new place in the world today where, you know, we're going to Conjure up actors from 50 years ago, or ones that never existed, or anything that is real or non-real and mix it together in ways that defy imagination.”
Riccitiello: Unity-built software reaches over 3 billion monthly downloads
“And today, twenty million is just about three to 3.1 billion every, you know, downloads per month in content building Unity.”
Riccitiello: Call of Duty, Pokémon GO, and Honor of Kings use Unity
“At any given point in time, using mobile as an example, it's not just the top 100 we've cracked, but, you know, the fastest growing game in the world today, Call of Duty, or products like you know, Mario Kart Tour, Pokemon Go, Honor of Kings, the biggest game …”
Riccitiello: Gaming industry is near the total end of physical media
“In the game industry we're not quite at the point where we've left behind all physical media, but we're close. And I can't talk about, you know, hardware launches that are coming next year that we are preparing in engineering and coming the year after that, bu…”
Riccitiello: Gaming content is YouTube's single largest category
“I believe the single largest category on YouTube is watching people play video games.”
Riccitiello: Nexon leads gaming industry in managing player lifetime value
“Nexon, the company you mentioned, probably does the best job of husbanding the value of players looking at the long-term lifetime value of an individual player. They're probably the premier company at managing that particular aspect.”
Riccitiello: Unity tracks 2.0 to 2.5 billion monthly users
“So, I mean, just in Unity alone, we track about two to two and a half billion users per month.”
Riccitiello: Mobile gaming reaches over 2B users vs. millions on console
“At best, there's only a couple hundred million people in the world that will touch a console on a given generation. But mobile is well north of two billion.”
Riccitiello: Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One used Unity for pre-visualization
“Things like Ready Player One, the film, I can talk about if it's a long discussion, it was produced in Unity, the film by Steven Spielberg, or at least PreViz was done in Unity.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens John's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 a16zLEDGER | Co-owner & Investor, Gratz Pilates | 1 | 23 | 63% 5/8 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |