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From Cereal Aisles to Game Commerce, Berkley Egenes Keeps Following the Fan
His route to the games business ran through retail promotions, racing, virtual reality and esports. At Xsolla, those lessons have become a practical brief: make global commerce feel local, and make an infrastructure company useful to the people creating the games.
Shahar Sorek Has Lived Several Careers. Now He Is Betting on the Players.
The five-time taekwondo champion became an actor, a studio founder and, eventually, Overwolf’s CMO. His latest act is helping players turn the urge to change a game into a profession.
Kun Gao
Kun Gao is a serial entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and original CEO of Crunchyroll, the platform that turned anime from a niche US curiosity into a billion-dollar streaming giant (acquired by Sony/AT&T WarnerMedia for $1.2 billion). Now he's doing it again as Co-Founder and CEO of Forge (forge.gg), a San Francisco-based game marketing and loyalty platform that hit 1 million users within its first year. Alongside co-founders Dennis 'Thresh' Fong (the world's first professional esports player) and George Ng, Gao is building the infrastructure layer that indie game developers desperately need: no-code loyalty programs, player analytics, and direct community channels - without the walled gardens.