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Mandy Teefey Has Always Bet on the Story Everyone Else Left by the Curb
Before she became Wondermind’s co-founder and CEO, Mandy Teefey learned production from the floor up, turned an abandoned-couch family joke into a company name, and carried one young-adult novel through years of Hollywood limbo. Her career is a study in stubborn attention - and what it costs when conviction meets the operating realities of a startup.
Bernard Yee
Bernard 'Bernie' Yee is the CEO and co-founder of Windup Minds, a Seattle-based independent VR/MR studio building 'Stay: Forever Home,' a mixed-reality virtual pet named Ember. A games-industry lifer who started as a journalist and trained as a lawyer, Yee has produced or shaped some of the most influential titles in gaming - Plants vs. Zombies 2 and Peggle 2 at PopCap, Destiny at Bungie, Rock Band at Harmonix, EverQuest at Sony Online - before spending nearly a decade at Oculus/Meta Reality Labs producing landmark VR experiences like Dreamdeck, Toybox, First Contact and First Steps. His thesis: XR is uniquely capable of making a digital creature feel real, and a game can make you feel loved.