Miska from Deconstructor of Fun recently did an interview with Jon Lai, General Partner at VC firm a16z. They’ve just announced a new $600 million gaming fund, to invest in gaming studios, player communities and infrastructure.

In the latest podcast episode, I have Derek Lau (LinkedIn,...

Sent on May 20th, 2022. If you aren’t a subscriber to EGD News, you can subscribe here. I’ve been wondering why there haven’t been any big fundraising announcements from the Finnish games industry for the last twelve months. The apparent reason is that there are...

In this podcast episode, I’m talking with Alexander Bergendahl, who is the co-founder and CEO of LootLocker, a games backend solutions company from Stockholm, Sweden. Alexander is a repeat founder, who’s been doing games companies for a while now. With Alexander, we talk about his founder journey, learnings from doing his companies, and how Alexander is still learning to be a better founder.

Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen said in an interview in 2021,” We don’t greenlight games. We greenlight teams.”

In another podcast, Paananen elaborated on how he’s seen teams get formed and game concepts being born out of settings that allow for serendipity.

In today’s episode, I’m talking with Neil McFarland and Matthew Ryan from First Light Games, a game studio based in London, UK. The founders started the company a few years ago, to work on free-to-play games for mobile, but last year, decided to pivot to web3 gaming.

I’ve previously written about angel investing and about my angel syndicate.

Here are six lessons I’ve learned from investing in 25 companies in the past three years.

In this podcast episode, I have Adam Jaffe on the show. Adam is the founder and CEO of Mega Studio, a gaming outfit based out of Barcelona, Spain.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this chapter in Jim Collins’ Good to Great, called “First who … then what,” where he talks about having the right people on the bus (bus being the company) before you start driving the bus. When you have the right people on the bus, those people will know where to drive the bus. They’ll want to be on the bus, not because of where the bus is going. But because of who else is on the bus.

In this podcast episode, I talk with Nick Kneuper and Nat Eliason who are building Crypto Raiders, which I believe is one of the best web3 games out there.

In the podcast, I asked Are, “How can first-time founders become comfortable with the uncomfortable?”

In this podcast episode, I’m talking with Are Mack Growen, a General Partner at London Venture Partners, a VC firm focused on investing in founders in the game sector at the seed stage.

After writing my recent annual review for 2021, I decided to review each quarter to reflect on my work and what I’d want to achieve in the next quarter.

In this week’s episode, I’m talking with Mika Tammenkoski, who is the co-founder and CEO of Metacore Games, the company that is well known for their hit game Merge Mansion.

Dilution is inevitable when raising investor capital. In this piece, I want to talk about some of the concepts that will come up with thinking about fundraising, or getting by with less dilution.

In this episode, I’m talking with the co-founders of Trailblazer Games, Alex Arias and Andreas Risberg. Trailblazer Games is a new web3 games company, founded in 2021 and recently they’ve announced a seed round of $8.2m raised from investors like Makers Fund and Play Ventures.

When I started time block planning, I immediately noticed a few things. First, I could feel more productive for spending 30 minutes answering emails versus answering them at any point of the day.

In this podcast episode, I’m talking with Andrew Sheppard, who is the Managing Director at Transcend Fund, a venture capital firm investing in the future of games and digital entertainment.

“That was the great thing about Mitch [Lasky]. He said: I don’t want you to just spend your board meeting on telling me how great things are. I don’t care about that. I want to hear at every board meeting what you’re worried about.”

In the latest podcast episode, I have Christian Facey and Wilfrid Obeng from Audiomob, talking about their journey of building their company, which enables audio ads for mobile games.