Ryan Wyatt

CEO, Cronos Labs · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ryan Wyatt began his career in esports commentary before spending nearly eight years running YouTube Gaming as Global Head of Gaming. He transitioned to Web3 leadership as CEO of Polygon Studios and later became CEO of Cronos Labs.

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4 predictions · 3 assertions · 2 opinions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Wyatt: Gaming startup capital reached an all-time high in 2022
“There has never been this kind of capital being deployed to entrepreneurs in the history of gaming.”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 52:54 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios

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Everything Ryan Wyatt said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Wyatt: Current Web3 gaming product offerings are pretty underwhelming
“I would say the product offering that we have out in the market for gamers right now is pretty underwhelming, right? It's like, here's version 0.5, and that's okay. You gotta start somewhere.”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 1:04:36 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
Opinion
Wyatt: Gatekeeping gaming against blockchain technology is unjustified
“I just really hate the gatekeeping of the gaming category, because it offers so much to so many people, and I don't know, like, why any of us have any, like, any right to stand on and be like, this has no place in gaming when it is technology, right?”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 1:09:55 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
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Wyatt: Triple-A games taking 3-4 years will drive Web3 inflection
“If you look at these games that'll actually create a material inflection in web three, and blockchain in general will be these, like, high polish, triple-a type games that are gonna take three or four years to bake, right?”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 59:19 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
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Wyatt: Blockchain games will serve a significant audience, but not all games
“Blockchain games is going to serve a significant size of the total gaming audience, but not all of it, right? And nor, I would say, a lot of games have no business being a blockchain-based game. No interest. Doesn't do anything for it. Not helpful. Not product…”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 1:01:50 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
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Wyatt: Competitive esports is a tiny share of total gaming watch time
“Which is hardcore competitive esports. It actually represents a very, very small amount of the total percentage of gaming watch time when you think about it, but it is now the most premium and upper echelon, and so it gets a lot of praise”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 31:28 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
Assertion Supported
Wyatt: Gaming startup capital reached an all-time high in 2022
“There has never been this kind of capital being deployed to entrepreneurs in the history of gaming.”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 52:54 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
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Wyatt: Metaverse transformation will take 10 to 20 years
“We should be very honest with ourselves that we are in, like, the first inning, if you will. Like, we got 10, 15, 20 years of this digital transformation, and we are at the very beginning of it. And so I think it's tempering expectations, like, you know, two y…”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 1:13:22 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wyatt: 99% of PFP NFT projects will completely fail
“Honestly, 99% of those projects are gonna be complete shit, but this is really cool to see a very reputable brand and company be like, we actually got a long term strategy here.”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 1:14:41 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
Assertion Supported
Wyatt: Polygon hosts 7,000 to 8,000 decentralized applications
“Right now you're looking at like seven to 8000 daps on polygon.”
Ryan Wyatt Mar 31, 2022 ▶ 59:06 The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios

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Appearances (1)

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The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios Mar 31, 2022 33m
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