Ben Gilbert
Acquired
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming
- Published
- April 26, 2023
- Duration
- 2h 16m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses investing.
Summary
We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast fame) to discuss the history and future of gaming business models. This episode is the perfect bookend to our Nintendo/Sega gaming series this season on Acquired — no one is more qualified than Mitch and Blake to breakdown how the …
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Show notes
We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast fame) to discuss the history and future of gaming business models. This episode is the perfect bookend to our Nintendo/Sega gaming series this season on Acquired — no one is more qualified than Mitch and Blake to breakdown how the business side of the industry has evolved so radically from the Periscope quarter-drop days to the forever games and platform based publishers
Themes
- investing