Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky
and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast
fame) to discuss the history and future of gaming business
models. This episode is the perfect bookend to our Nintendo/Sega
gaming series this season on Acquired — no one is more qualified
than Mitch and Blake to breakdown how the business side of the
industry has evolved so radically from the Periscope quarter-drop
days to the forever games and platform based publishers of today.


Regardless if you’re a gamer, understanding the incredible
innovation that’s taken place over the past two decades in gaming
and what it portends for other industries is critical for any
founder and investor to understand. Tune in!


Links


The Gamecraft Podcast

Mitch and Blake on Twitter

The Genius of the System

Mitch’s old “Investing in Content” blog post

That Game Company and Sky

Riot and the League of Legends dota-allstars.com growth hack



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