David Kaye’s Essays

David Kaye’s Essays

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What I learned in my first year as a VC

Vertical worlds and the future of user generated content

How Five Nights at Freddy's foretells the future of franchises

How startups can survive the coming storm

Why investors hate content risk and how to overcome it

Why we invested in Omada

Why we invested in Series AI

Why generative AI NPCs are overhyped

The end of cheap money for games

Why no one wants to fund your mobile game startup

Rise of the designer founder

Challenges in AI + games investing

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