Frost Giant CEO Tim Morten on gaming business models, Esports & more | E1503

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Today, Jason sits down with Frost Giant CEO Tim Morten to discuss the gaming business models, Esports, and more (1:50). Then, on this week's OK Boomer segment, Producer Rachel speaks with Richard Mensah, co-founder of Salley, about being an international founder (1:09:45).

(0:00) Jason and Molly introduce today’s show

(1:50) Jason speaks with Production Director & CEO of Frost Giant, Tim Morten

(11:15) PolicyGenius - Head to https://www.policygenius.com to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save

(12:25) Running a game studio as a startup

(21:54) Vanta - Get $1,000 off automating your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist

(23:09) Business model changes in the gaming industry

(30:40) Intercom - Get advanced Intercom features and Early Stage Academy at a 95% discount https://www.intercom.com/early-stage

(32:56) Raising money as a gaming startup

(1:09:45) Producer Rachel tees up this week’s OK Boomer

(1:12:37) OKB: Richard Mensah, Co-Founder of Salley, on being an international founder

(1:36:51) Outro + Plugs

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody. We've got an awesome Friday for you.
0:02.9	First up, I sit down with Frost Giant Studio CEO Tim Morton to talk about the
0:07.4	business of online gaming. He worked on one of my favorite games,
0:10.3	EverStarCraft 2. And so we go deep into real-time strategy.
0:15.1	And it was just an amazing discussion. It got me really interested,
0:18.3	Molly, and potentially investing in video games.
0:21.1	Maybe people should make a bubble.
0:23.7	And of their video game pitch and send it to you because this is very
0:27.3	visual pitch that we'd want to say.
0:28.7	It'd be great. That is just an absolutely great conversation.
0:31.7	And it's just pretty darling, actually, to hear Jason like geek out on video games,
0:35.3	which does not happen.
0:36.6	That's a very often. And then of course, we have another edition of everybody's favorite,
0:40.4	OK Boomer, with producer Rachel.
0:42.4	It's going to be a great show.
0:43.8	Sigma this.
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