Nitish Mittersain

Founder & Managing Director, Nazara Technologies · 1 appearance on the record.

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He founded Nazara Technologies in 1999, subsequently steering it to become India's first publicly listed gaming, esports, and sports media conglomerate. Beyond operating Nazara, he is an active angel investor who has backed dozens of early-stage startups across India's technology ecosystem.

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5 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 1 names 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

What the tape says about how Nitish argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Mittersain: India gaming GST moved to 28% on deposits versus 18% on rake
“Now the latest tax on the GST is 28% on deposits, which was earlier 20. I mean, gaming companies were paying 18% on their rake, right?”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:51:53 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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Assertion Supported
Mittersain: India gaming GST moved to 28% on deposits versus 18% on rake
“Now the latest tax on the GST is 28% on deposits, which was earlier 20. I mean, gaming companies were paying 18% on their rake, right?”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:51:53 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Mittersain: A 19-year-old's Roblox game generates $60M in annual revenue
“I just did a Zoom call recently with a 19 year old kid who has a game called Blocks Roots. And it makes something like sixty million dollars a year or something. In revenue.”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:11:33 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mittersain: Banning real-money gaming in Indian states drives the market underground
“When you ban, you've seen in many states, for example, in India, where games have been banned. The online real money games have been banned. The business has usually gone underground. To more irresponsible players. Which completely exposes the users.”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:51:00 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Mittersain: Ludo King surpassed 1B downloads but struggles to monetize
“It's a, we recently crossed a billion downloads, I think. In India. Yeah, but I. Yeah, monetization is a is a challenge.”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 31:09 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Mittersain: Nazara pays corporate data analysts 20-30 lakhs INR annually
“I mean, we, for, at least at a corporate team where we have a few people looking at data of a lot of our studios, maybe 20, 30 lakhs a year.”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 2:32:17 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Mittersain: Nazara Technologies is India's only listed gaming company, worth 5,000 crores
“As India's only listed gaming company, it's worth 5000 crores.”
Nitish Mittersain Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 2:38:06 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

The other half of the tape: Nitish Mittersain's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Nitish Mittersain, by other people (1)

Disclosure
Kamath discloses a 5% investment stake in Nazara Technologies
“Five percent investor in Nathish's company, and we meet often, and, ah, like I'm going to bug all of you today, I bug him a lot on questions, and because I want to understand this domain a bit more.”
Nikhil Kamath Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 6:16 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath Apr 21, 2024 19m
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