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Emmett Shear

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We established two teams to pursue mobile video and gaming, with one team focusing on gaming led by me and Kevin Lynn, as we believed in its potential.

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Emmett Shear at Startup School SV 2014

@ Y Combinator

10/15/14

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Emmett Shear

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

We faced a dilemma about the future of our company, considering opportunities in mobile video and gaming, and decided to set real goals for both projects.

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Jensen Huang

06/24/11

@ Stanford Online

Despite skepticism from investors about the video game market, we believed it would be a significant industry due to our experiences as part of the video game generation.

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Emmett Shear

04/22/17

@ Y Combinator

To pivot Justin.tv, we realized we needed to talk to users to identify valuable use cases and directions for growth, particularly in gaming.

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Reed Hastings

02/24/24

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

Gaming requires significant upfront investment, similar to film and television, and we need to build a strong creative foundation to compete with pure gaming companies.

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Ilkka Paananen

04/03/25

@ a16z speedrun

Our pivot from web games to mobile was a critical decision, driven by the realization that our first Facebook game was a failure, which ultimately guided our direction.

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Jason Citron

04/29/25

@ a16z speedrun

We initially planned to build a chat app for gaming, but we thought we could bootstrap it through a game. When the game failed, we realized we could launch the chat app directly instead.

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Y Combinator Cast

09/18/18

@ Y Combinator

We sent a co-founder to China to build a mobile team because we needed to move faster and couldn't develop it internally.

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Jensen Huang

06/24/11

@ Stanford Online

Our business plan was to take expensive technology from workstations and make it inexpensive for consumers, with video games as the killer app.

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Reed Hastings

02/24/24

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

We have about three years into our gaming effort, aiming to be the most creative gaming studio that produces games everyone wants to play.