Animesh Agarwal

Founder & CEO, 8Bit Creatives · 1 appearance on the record.

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Widely recognized under the alias "8Bit Thug," Agarwal is a prominent figure in the Indian gaming ecosystem who co-founded S8UL Esports. Through his talent management agency, 8Bit Creatives, he manages many of India's top gaming creators and spearheads gaming and esports production partnerships.

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2 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 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.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Agarwal: India has 568M gamers, surpassing US and Brazil mobile downloads

“India has surpassed US and Brazil in terms of mobile game downloads. India has five sixty eight million online gamers.”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 51:34 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

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What they said7 Episodes1

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Agarwal: India will not produce top-tier games for at least five years

“India will produce the best of games in coming years, but it's not going to happen at least for the next five years.”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 52:03 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Opinion

Agarwal: India's top gaming creators succeeded through luck, not skill

“When I talk about India's top gamers, professional gamers or content creators, I believe they are nothing. There could be 100,000, lakhs of more skilled gamers and better content creators sitting at home. But it's so much about luck that you, they were at the …”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 56:03 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Agarwal: Declining attention spans will phase out slow narrative games in five years

“I don't think people are going to be ready for that in the next five years. The first event, the next event needs, the rate at which events happen in the game or events occur in the game needs to be faster. Because I think swipe up generation is gonna take up …”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:54:23 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Agarwal: Top Indian esports players earn around 35 lakhs annually

“I would say people who have played at the highest level of e-sports, that is playing official tournaments for a franchise or not a franchise. We don't have franchise, but for a registered e-sports team, I think they could be doing close to 35 lakhs a year. By …”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 50:16 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Insight

Agarwal: Indian esports players should avoid games lacking local publisher backing

“If you're in India, you want to ensure that the publisher of that game is taking enough interest in India to build around that game. For example, there's a game called Dota two for say, it does not have an active India publisher interest in India. However, it'…”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 2:34:14 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Agarwal: India has 568M gamers, surpassing US and Brazil mobile downloads

“India has surpassed US and Brazil in terms of mobile game downloads. India has five sixty eight million online gamers.”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 51:34 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Disclosure

8Bit Thug: Most revenue comes from talent management, not personal content

“I make the most money from people I manage, the talent management business.”

Animesh Agarwal Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:41:37 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Ep# 17 \| WTF is Gaming in India? \| Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath	Apr 21, 2024	29m

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