Wildcard: The Business of Video Games with Joost van Dreun
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In recent decades, the video game industry has experienced incredible growth, surpassing film and music to become the most valuable form of entertainment in the world. What has driven this growth and what comes for the interactive entertainment industry? Video game researcher, professor, and investor Joost van Dreunen joins the podcast to answer those questions and more! If you’d like to learn more about the video game industry, make sure to check out Joost’s recent book One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphill. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.0 | Wild-C-C-C-Gold's. Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome Industry Focus. I'm Nick Saipole. On this week's episode we're taking a |
| 0:30.4 | look at the video game industry with my special guest |
| 0:33.1 | Yost Van Joce Van Joyen is the co-founder and former CEO of gaming research |
| 0:37.6 | firm Super Data Research and works as an investor and advisor to startups and |
| 0:41.6 | investment firms in the video game industry. In addition he's a lecturer and |
| 0:43.3 | investment firms in the video game industry. In addition, he's a lecturer at the NYU Stern School of Business |
| 0:46.7 | where he teaches the business of video games. |
| 0:48.8 | He joins us today to discuss his recent book, |
| 0:51.5 | One Up, Creativity, Competition, |
| 0:53.4 | and the Global Business of Video Games. |
| 0:55.6 | Josephine joining and welcome to Industry Focus. |
| 0:57.6 | Thanks for having me, Nick. |
| 0:59.2 | Great to have you on the podcast. |
| 1:01.3 | Before we dive into the substance of your book how did you first get involved in |
| 1:04.8 | video games? |
| 1:05.8 | That's a good question. I have it was it was really a fool's errand for me personally |
| 1:09.6 | like I ended up I came to the US and like the time right before the it did a bubble burst and so I ended up going into |
| 1:17.0 | academia as a result and in there one of the most interesting aspects of all things media entertainment was |
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