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David Kaye - Games entrepreneur and investor

58 min • 12 juni 2023

In this podcast episode from June 2023, I talk with David Kaye, who did his first games company in the 1990s. Recently, he sold his company to Embracer and is now embarking on a journey to invest in gaming founders.

Senaste avsnitt

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Tom Hammond — On entrepreneurship and doing a startup

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Jenny Xu — Fitness games and entrepreneurship

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Touko Tahkokallio — On game creation and founding a new studio

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David Amor — Two decades of gaming entrepreneurship

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Jon Radoff — On entrepreneurship and the metaverse

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Sophie Vo — How to share feedback

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Ask Me Anything #9 — Investing questions

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Halli Bjornsson — Industry life cycles in gaming

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Asbjoern Malte Soendergaard — Games company builder story

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Andres Constantinidis — Building a remote-first game studio

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Derek Lau — Building Guild of Guardians

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Alexander Bergendahl — A repeat founder story

16 maj 2022 | 42 min

Neil McFarland and Matthew Ryan — Pivoting from F2P to Web3

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Adam Jaffe — What it takes to succeed in gaming

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Nick Kneuper and Nat Eliason — Building Crypto Raiders

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Mika Tammenkoski — Building Metacore

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Alex Arias and Andreas Risberg — Game Devs Going Web3

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Andrew Sheppard — From operator to investor

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Christian Facey and Wilfrid Obeng — Audio Ads in Games

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Hugo Obi — Gaming in Africa

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Alexander Krug and Andre Krug — Success in instant games

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Eitan Reisel — Future of games investing

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Salone Sehgal — Investing in Indian games companies

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Ismet Goksen — Investing in Turkish gaming ecosystem

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Carolin Krenzer — Building games with stellar execution

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Jere Partanen and Erik Gloersen — Investing in early-stage gaming

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Corentin Selz — 10,000 game experiments

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Henri Lindgren — Building a hyper casual studio

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Matej Lancaric — User acquisition for mobile games

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Arnd Benninghoff — Better M&A in gaming

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Joe Schaeppi and Bastian Bergmann — Understanding your players

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Guillaume Verlinden — Growing games and teams

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Ask Me Anything #5

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Ilya Eremeev — From 3D Artist to Gaming VC

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Alli Ottarsson — From operator to VC

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Elad Levy — Custom analytics for games

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EGD 087: Karoliina Korppoo, 10th Muse

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EGD 085: Anat Shperling, Toya

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EGD 075: Lars Jörnow, EQT Ventures

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David Kaye - Games entrepreneur and investor

Senaste avsnitt

David Kaye - Games entrepreneur and investor

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Kristian Segerstrale

Pitch Feedback from Joakim — Melissa McBride, Sophia Technologies

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Arseny Lebedev — Life of a gaming studio CEO

First chapter of my audiobook "Long Term Game: How to Build a Video Games Company"

EGD Podcast Highlights From 2022

Cyril Barrow — Interoperability of assets between games

Kelly Wallick — 1Up Venture's Community of Founders

Maor Sadra — Measuring your marketing and entrepreneurship lessons

Tom Hammond — On entrepreneurship and doing a startup

Jenny Xu — Fitness games and entrepreneurship

Touko Tahkokallio — On game creation and founding a new studio

David Amor — Two decades of gaming entrepreneurship

Benjamin Carcich and Aaron Smith — Building Better Leaders

Jon Radoff — On entrepreneurship and the metaverse

Sophie Vo — How to share feedback

Ask Me Anything #9 — Investing questions

Halli Bjornsson — Industry life cycles in gaming

Ads in mobile games

Asbjoern Malte Soendergaard — Games company builder story

Andres Constantinidis — Building a remote-first game studio

Derek Lau — Building Guild of Guardians

Alexander Bergendahl — A repeat founder story

Neil McFarland and Matthew Ryan — Pivoting from F2P to Web3

Adam Jaffe — What it takes to succeed in gaming

Nick Kneuper and Nat Eliason — Building Crypto Raiders

Are Mack Growen — Helping founders build

Mika Tammenkoski — Building Metacore

Alex Arias and Andreas Risberg — Game Devs Going Web3

Andrew Sheppard — From operator to investor

Christian Facey and Wilfrid Obeng — Audio Ads in Games

Hugo Obi — Gaming in Africa

Alexander Krug and Andre Krug — Success in instant games

Eitan Reisel — Future of games investing

Piers Kicks — Investing in blockchain games

Salone Sehgal — Investing in Indian games companies

Ismet Goksen — Investing in Turkish gaming ecosystem

Carolin Krenzer — Building games with stellar execution

Ask Me Anything #8

Jere Partanen and Erik Gloersen — Investing in early-stage gaming

Corentin Selz — 10,000 game experiments

Alon Grinshpoon — Building for the metaverse

2021 podcast highlights

Ask Me Anything #7

Oskar Burman — Doing your own thing

Tatiana Kondratyeva — Building a game studio from scratch

Ville Heijari — Opportunities In Mobile

Ask Me Anything #6

Henri Lindgren — Building a hyper casual studio

Matej Lancaric — User acquisition for mobile games

Arnd Benninghoff — Better M&A in gaming

Elad Levy — Custom analytics for games - Part 2

Joe Schaeppi and Bastian Bergmann — Understanding your players

Guillaume Verlinden — Growing games and teams

Ask Me Anything #5

Ilya Eremeev — From 3D Artist to Gaming VC

Alli Ottarsson — From operator to VC

Elad Levy — Custom analytics for games

Logan Dwight — Tabletop RPGs Go Online

Ask Me Anything #4

Games industry numbers for H1 of 2021

EGD 099: Martin Macmillan, Pollen VC

EGD 098: Klaas Kersting, Phoenix Games

EGD 097: KooPee Hiltunen, Neogames

EGD 096: Ask Me Anything #3

EGD 095: Cordel Robbin-Coker, Carry1st

EGD 094: Jon Hook, Boombit

EGD 093: Tomi Kaukinen, License to Fail

EGD 092: Ben Cousens, Lakestar

EGD 091: Ask Me Anything #2

EGD 090: Jernej Cesen, Outfit7

EGD 089: Andrew Green on startup lessons learned

EGD 088: Eric Goldberg, Crossover Technologies

EGD 087: Karoliina Korppoo, 10th Muse

EGD Special: Valuations for early-stage startups

EGD 086: Salla Niemela, Futureplay