Why Is Gaming and Blockchain Taking Off? w/ Yield Guild CEO Gabby Dizon
Next Creators
English - August 31, 2021 13:50 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBTechnology Business Entrepreneurship decentralized entrepreneurs builders defi community nfts creators Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Gabby Dizon is co-founder of Yield Guild Games, a play-to-earn gaming guild. They invest in yield producing NFTs in games and virtual worlds and organize a player community from around the world to earn an income from playing these games. Yield Guild Games recently raised 4.6 million dollar round from the highly competitive Andreessen Horowitz venture fund. In this episode Gabby talks with Sasha bout:
• How Axie Infinity has an unheard of 90% 30 day retention for players
• What drove Axie Infinity and Yield Guild Games' growth to go vertical in 2021
• Raising $4.6M from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz
• What's unique about play-to-earn games
• Thinking about how to get to 5 or even 10 million Yield Guild Scholars
• Why having an open economy actually brings more value for players and the studio versus closed economies in Web2 games
• Advice and important resources for game developers
Episode links:
Gabby Dizon: https://twitter.com/gabusch
Yield Guild Games: https://yieldguild.io
[BLOG POST] YGG Raises $4.6M Led By a16z to Accelerate Play-to-Earn: https://medium.com/yield-guild-games/ygg-raises-4-6m-from-a16z-to-accelerate-play-to-earn-gaming-7f5cbccce657
Yield Guild Scholarships: https://medium.com/yield-guild-games/yield-guild-explains-play-to-earn-and-scholarships-bb1e097c2a61
Formula 1 Delta Game: https://www.f1deltatime.com
Sasha Hudzilin: https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH