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two & a half gamers honest interviews #4 - Erik Gloersen (Why is the company vision important?)

Oct 21, 202246 min
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Episode description

Welcome dear listener! This is a 2.5 gamers podcast with an honest interviews segment #4. Asking tough questions, having fun and dropping some knowledge with gaming industry peeps.

Erik Gloersen & Matej Lancaric

Youtube: https://youtu.be/U9VvPzLk3Pk

Agenda

00:00 Podcast intro

01:28 Erik Gloersen introduction

08:00 Erik & Sisu ventures

08:50 Pre-powerpoint investment

09:35 Which skills do you require to be a general manager in a fund?

11:20 Investing in repeat-founders

13:44 How to do the due diligence? 

17:00 UA is hard, mobile is dead

21:00 Is blockchain a new way of gaming?

28:00 Who do you need in your founding team

29:20 Is UA important in the first stage?

32:00 How many home runs per failure do you need? How does the VC model work?

34:30 When bootstrap and when to take VC money?

40:19 Biggest regret in investment

42:00 Favourite books 

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012

https://www.amazon.com/Built-to-Last-Jim-Collins-audiobook/dp/B0813QCVN9/ref=sr_1_1

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-to-One-audiobook/dp/B00M284NY2/ref=sr_1_1

44:35 Rapid quiz

sisu.vc


Please share feedback and comments - matej@lancaric.me / lancaric.me

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