Bebop and Rocksteady: Recent Episodes
Matt
Today we have an awesome podcast with C.R. Celona, known by those who love him as Celona. Or by those who respect his Italian heritage as “Chelona” with lots of big hand gestures.
Celona is one of the founders of the influencer space through his work as an early hire at Vimeo and his help founding of companies like Speakr/twtmob, and Cluster social impact. He’s spent the last 25 years at the intersection of creators, brands, and social media, and is considered by pretty much everyone to be an OG in the business of the creator economy. On the podcast we talk about what the creator economy was like in the beginning during web 1 and how it’s evolved into what it is today and how ownership, or web3, is changing not only creator communities but very nature and mechanics of our relationships in the digital world and the physical world.
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Today we have a really educational podcast with Yoshio Osaki. Yoshio is the President and CEO of IDG Consulting. IDG is the leading market research and strategic consulting firm for the video game space - they work with all kinds of clients like huge companies considering big transmedia plays all the way to small venture firms wanting a research partner for cutting edge trends in interactive media.
On the podcast we focus on two major themes: the regulatory environment for gaming, mainly TikTok and the DMA, and the trends in cross platform gaming. There is probably not a better person in the world to talk to about these issues than Yoshio - I learned a lot and I hope you do too.
Before we go over to the podcast with Yoshio, if you are a streamer, gamer, or gamer developer, don’t forget to go over to arcatar.com to sign up for Early Access, which is happening as we speak, and to follow ARCatar at arcatarcreators on X twitter to keep up with all the awesome stuff we are doing.
On this episode we have Frode Krisner. Frode is the CEO and founder of a Norwegian company called Gameopedia that is the global leader in gaming-metadata-as-a-service and one of the strongest brands in the gaming space. We spend the first few minutes of the podcast talking about Gameopedia’s super interesting founding story and then spend the rest of our time together talking about where Gamepedia is taking game discovery, user journeys, game development, and gaming relationships.
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In this episode we have a great chat with Adam Starcaster. Adam is in the middle of an impressive 32-year career in game development. Over the past two decades, he has been at the helm of a covert co-development company across Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, where is a major contributor to the expansion of Shanghai's gaming sector as the founding member of its IGDA chapter. Adam is also a big player in planning and organizing major trade shows and conferences in the gaming space, such as GDC China, China Joy, and Tokyo Sandbox. Adam is well known in the gaming and creator space for his acumen in brand development, operations, and strategic business planning, and he gives a lot of his time to be a mentor for the Founder Institute, aiding in the gamification of companies worldwide since 2013. Currently, Adam is championing creator rights on a global scale, leveraging his extensive experience to influence and inspire the next generation of developers and creators.
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On this episode we have Dave Prout. Dave is a 25 year video game industry veteran with experience as Lead Artist & Head of Product/ops at several large gaming brands, game publishers, and indie gaming studios. Dave was a major player in the production of games like Call of Duty, Halo, Doom, Civilization, and more. One of Dave's claims to fame is that he has published a video game on every major platform.
On the podcast Dave walks us through the past, present, and future of physical people in digital world with a focus on the social internet and video games.
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Links referenced during podcast:
- Trends in the Financial Value of Scams
Ash Leavenworth joins Creator Principles today. Ash is the co-founder of Stumpt Gamers, which is a group of gamers focused on creating co-op content primarily on Youtube and Twitch. We spend most of the podcast talking about how Stumpt Gamers has built such a tight knit community over the last ten years and how Stumpt keeps their community close even though it now has well over half a million members.
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This podcast is with Christian Frithiof, founder of IGDB. IGDB is a B2B data company in the gaming space that was sold to Twitch in 2019. On the pod Christian tells the tale of IGDB, his biggest lessons learned, and what he sees as the biggest trends in gaming.
If you are a gamer, streamer, or game developer please go to arcatar.com to sign up for early access. This is going to be big - you don't want to miss it and we really want your feedback!
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In this episode we chat with Viev, a professional video game streamer and Twitch partner, about the nuances of life as a streamer. You can find her on twitch.tv by searching Viev.
If you are a gamer, a streamer, or video game developer don't forget to go to arcatar.com to sign up for early access starting in just a few weeks. You don't want to miss it!
Our guest in this episode is Erik Bethke. Erik has been making video games since the early 90s and has incredible depth of knowledge about the past, present, and future of business models in the gaming space.
Currently Erik is the CEO of Million on Mars as well as an advisor to ARCatar.
If you are a gamer or a streamer please sign up for early access on the ARCatar website, starting in just a few weeks!
In this episode Joshua and I talk about how many mainstream narratives about gaming should be re-thought or thrown out. Many modern video games may be better for our brains than reading. You'll learn that about half of kids in America have a Roblox account, that Josh is doing the hard work of meeting them where they are, and that many of us should follow his lead.
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Studies mentioned in the podcast:
- Manpower group study on workforce trends and hiring for gaming skills
- NIH study: Video Gaming May Be Associated With Better Cognitive Performance in Children
On this episode of Market Principles we host Scott Moran and we talk about how creators make money.
Scott is the co-founder of SamCart, the #1 checkout solution for creators. SamCart has helped more than 17,000 entrepreneurs sell more than $3.5 Billion of their own services, downloads, courses, coaching, and more.
Check out Scott's e-book on how creators make money: https://www.samcart.com/creator-profits-report
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The creator economy has become an absolute force but few are familiar with it. In this podcast, Brandon Llinas, Director of Partnerships at ARCatar, shares his experiences and learnings after having worked across multiple business in the creator space.
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https://www.arcatar.com/beta-sign-up
In this episode Britt and Matt work through what happened with SVB, what is going on now, and what might be in store for markets and the economy in the near term.
On this episode, the first of The Startups, Pranav Batra (Texas A&M undergrad extraordinare) and Matt interview technology expert, Jay Williams. Jay is an internet OG: he built one of the first internet service providers, Neosoft, and following that co-founded Net Explorer, one of the first Netscape and Java development companies. Since then he has had many successes as CTO and consultant for many of the Global 2000.
Today we are talking about how to think about operational scalability at early stage technology companies. We also wrote about these ideas on our blog - let us know what you think!
In this episode Britt discusses his framework for diversification and how it is different than other diversification models. The general ideal here is that traditional risk management relies on correlations that breakdown when you need them most. In addition, Britt discusses Strategic Partnerships, how they came about, and how they fit into his thinking around business building.
Here is a link to a youtube clip that flips through the slides referenced. The main slide we discuss is the first one - this is the visualization for the Diversification Framework.
Britt Harris recounts some of the most memorable markets environments of his career and dives into topics like what the financial industry could have done better before/during the GFC and how he thinks about bubbles.