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GEN C: From VR to AI, Mattel’s Vision for the Future of Play

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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, Ron Friedman, VP of Mattel Future Lab, joins us to share how Mattel is bringing iconic toy brands into the digital future through a human-centered approach to innovation.

Today's episode is sponsored by Chainalysis.

Ron Friedman of Mattel Future Lab shares his perspective on the importance of brand authenticity, mainstream accessibility and leveraging Web3 tech to reimagine play. He shares Mattel's vision for pioneering the future while staying true to their mission of connecting people. We talk about iconic brands like Hot Wheels and Barbie and how the brand is continuously looking to evolve these beloved entities.

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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni, with editing by Jonas Huck. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.

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This episode of Gen C is sponsored by Chainalysis.

0:56.0

Gen C is the generation of the new internet.

0:59.0

In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on-chain provenance.

1:08.0

It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games,

1:11.9

and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital

1:17.0

citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them.

1:22.2

These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money,

1:26.5

how they look at identity, how they look at identity, how they look

1:28.3

at privacy, and how they look at the hybrid, digital, and physical spaces being built all around us.

1:34.1

And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they

1:38.6

interact with. We focus on how brands, large and small, are building for these audiences.

1:44.3

Welcome to Gen C.

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