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Kendall Boyd Has Spent a Career Making Games Matter - From Gears to Guild Wars
Across sports, shooters and online worlds, Kendall Boyd’s résumé reads like a tour of how games became persistent culture. His method is less about a single campaign than the patient work of connecting studios, partners and players.
Junyoung Kim Is Teaching a Game Company to Wake Up Before Its Humans
Bagelcode spent a decade turning player behavior into an operating system. Now its co-founder is applying the same experimental instinct to AI agents, tiny teams, and the unruly craft of making games.
Kaiser Wong
Kaiser Wong is the CEO of Pocket River, a mobile game publisher founded in 2011 that brings social and casual titles from indie developers to players on iOS and Android worldwide. Working across Hong Kong, mainland China and a US presence in Austin, Texas, he has helped ship games including MiniBattle, 4 Kingdoms and StarSequel, positioning the company as a bridge between small game studios and a global audience. His focus is publishing services: marketing, monetization, community and support for developers who want reach without building a publishing arm of their own.
Tips Out
Tips Out (known online as TipsOutBaby) is a gaming entrepreneur and Creator Scout at Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Games division, operating at the intersection of creator culture and venture capital. Best known as co-founder and COO/CEO of One True King (OTK) - the Austin-based creator collective he helped launch in October 2020 alongside Asmongold, Mizkif, Esfand, and Rich Campbell - he has quietly built one of gaming's most ambitious creator-led business empires. Beyond OTK, he co-founded Starforge Systems (a PC hardware company), Mythic Talent (a talent management agency), and Mad Mushroom (a creator-led game publishing label). In October 2023, a16z tapped him as a Games Creator Scout, formalizing his role as a bridge between gaming culture and the startup investment world.