We considered all historical acquisitions - not just technology companies - but may have overlooked some in areas that we know less well.
Naspers’ investment in Tencent and Softbank/Yahoo’s investment in Alibaba are disqualified for this reason. In order to count for our list, acquisitions must be at least a majority stake in the target company (otherwise it’s just an investment).Riot and the League of Legends growth hack.Mitch’s old “Investing in Content” blog post.
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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 of today. 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.
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