Ep. 1202: John Romero Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is John Romero, a renowned figure in the video game industry, known for co-creating the influential and widely popular game Doom. He developed a passion for computers and video games from an early age. Throughout his career, he has been involved in various game development projects and ventures. In addition to his game development work, Romero has also been involved in entrepreneurial endeavors, founding companies such as Ion Storm and Loot Drop. He continues to be active in the gaming industry, working on new projects and sharing his insights and experiences through interviews and public appearances.

The topic is his book Doom Guy: Life in First Person.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

His early life and family perspective
Career and success in the gaming industry
Collaboration and dynamics within development teams
Game development techniques and innovation
Current trends and recommendations in the gaming industry
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ventures

Jump in!

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.6	My guest today is the co-creator of a very famous video game, Doom.
0:39.1	My guest, John Romero.
0:41.3	John has a terribly interesting life and career.
0:45.8	I'm a little bit jealous of how cool it is to be in the video game world for as long as he has been in this world.
0:53.8	Starting age 11. So cool. We cover lots of
0:58.2	territory today from John's early childhood to bringing it up to current time. A lot of interesting
1:05.3	lessons in a conversation with John Romero. So even if you think you're not a video game person, trust me, you'll walk away with something
1:14.8	where you say, ah, that was useful.
1:18.2	Without any further delay for me, let's jump right into my guest today, John Romero.
1:33.6	I get pitched a lot of different guests.
1:40.2	And sometimes I'll get lucky and someone will say, hey, do you want to interview the billionaire founder of paychecks?
1:41.4	And I'll say, sure.
1:44.4	They'll say, hey, do you want to interview the founder of Dunkin' Donuts?
1:46.8	Well, sure, I'm not even having to think about that.
1:49.8	Hey, do you want to interview one of the co-creators of Doom?
1:51.7	I don't have to think about that.
1:54.1	That's great.
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