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Mitch Lasky, a general partner at Benchmark, has been the most successful U.S. venture capitalist in games, based on exits such as Riot Games.
He is the perfect person to look in the rear-view mirror to understand what has happened in the up-and-down game business and what might happen in its future. His views were previewed in this high-profile panel I moderated earlier this year, but in this session we had a chance to focus on his own perspective.

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