Creator Principles

Today on Creator Principles we have Preston Trout, founder of Crowdsurf, and Brian Freeman, founder of Twisty.ai. Both are thought leaders in emerging media with lots of great experiences and stories to share.   On the podcast we discuss this report by Chamath Palihapitiya at Social Capital and specifically two key questions: Has Apple's removal of the cookie really mattered to the digital ad...

Today on Creator Principles we have Lucas Parry, founder of Glow, and Michael Powers, founder of Twisty.ai. Both are thought leaders in emerging media with lots of great experiences and stories to share.   On the podcast we discuss this report by Chamath Palihapitiya at Social Capital and specifically two key questions: The report suggest companies like Google and Facebook are somehow doing badly,...

Today we have an awesome podcast with C.R. Celona, known by those who love him as Celona. Or by those who respect his Italian heritage as “Chelona” with lots of big hand gestures.   Celona is one of the founders of the influencer space through his work as an early hire at Vimeo and his help founding companies like Speakr/twtmob, and Cluster social impact. He’s spent the last 25 years at the inters...

Today we have a really educational podcast with Yoshio Osaki. Yoshio is the President and CEO of IDG Consulting. IDG is the leading market research and strategic consulting firm for the video game space - they work with all kinds of clients like huge companies considering big transmedia plays all the way to small venture firms wanting a research partner for cutting edge trends in interactive media...

On this episode we have Frode Krisner. Frode is the CEO and founder of a Norwegian company called Gameopedia that is the global leader in gaming-metadata-as-a-service and one of the strongest brands in the gaming space. We spend the first few minutes of the podcast talking about Gameopedia’s super interesting founding story and then spend the rest of our time together talking about where Gamepedia...

In this episode we have a great chat with Adam Starcaste r. Adam is in the middle of an impressive 32-year career in game development. Over the past two decades, he has been at the helm of a covert co-development company across Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, where is a major contributor to the expansion of Shanghai's gaming sector as the founding member of its IGDA chapter. Adam is...

On this episode we have Dave Prout. Dave is a 25 year video game industry veteran with experience as Lead Artist & Head of Product/ops at  several large gaming brands, game publishers, and indie gaming studios. Dave was a major player in the production of games like Call of Duty, Halo, Doom, Civilization, and more. One of Dave's claims to fame is that he has published a video game on ever...

Ash Leavenworth joins Creator Principles today. Ash is the co-founder of Stumpt Gamers, which is a group of gamers focused on creating co-op content primarily on Youtube and Twitch. We spend most of the podcast talking about how Stumpt Gamers has built such a tight knit community over the last ten years and how Stumpt keeps their community close even though it now has well over half a million memb...

This podcast is with Christian Frithiof, founder of IGDB. IGDB is a B2B data company in the gaming space that was sold to Twitch in 2019. On the pod Christian tells the tale of IGDB, his biggest lessons learned, and what he sees as the biggest trends in gaming. If you are a gamer, streamer, or game developer please go to arcatar.com to sign up for early access. This is going to be big - you don&ap...

In this episode we chat with Viev, a professional video game streamer and Twitch partner, about the nuances of life as a streamer. You can find her on twitch.tv by searching Viev.  If you are a gamer, a streamer, or video game developer don't forget to go to arcatar.com to sign up for early access starting in just a few weeks. You don't want to miss it!

Our guest in this episode is Erik Bethke. Erik has been making video games since the early 90s and has incredible depth of knowledge about the past, present, and future of business models in the gaming space. Currently Erik is the CEO of Million on Mars as well as an advisor to ARCatar. If you are a gamer or a streamer please sign up for early access on the ARCatar website, starting in just a few...

In this episode Joshua and I talk about how many mainstream narratives about gaming should be re-thought or thrown out. Many modern video games may be better for our brains than reading. You'll learn that about half of kids in America have a Roblox account, that Josh is doing the hard work of meeting them where they are, and that many of us should follow his lead. Sign up for early access to...

On this episode of Market Principles we host Scott Moran and we talk about how creators make money.  Scott is the co-founder of SamCart, the #1 checkout solution for creators. SamCart has helped more than 17,000 entrepreneurs sell more than $3.5 Billion of their own services, downloads, courses, coaching, and more.   Check out Scott's e-book on how creators make money: https://www.samcart.com...

The creator economy has become an absolute force but few are familiar with it. In this podcast, Brandon Llinas, Director of Partnerships at ARCatar, shares his experiences and learnings after having worked across multiple business in the creator space.  If you are a gamer or a streamer please sign up for early access to ARCatar using the below link: https://www.arcatar.com/beta-sign-up

On this episode, the first of The Startups, Pranav Batra (Texas A&M undergrad extraordinare) and Matt interview technology expert, Jay Williams. Jay is an internet OG: he built one of the first internet service providers, Neosoft, and following that co-founded Net Explorer, one of the first Netscape and Java development companies. Since then he has had many successes as CTO and consultant for...