Amir Satvat has created a LinkedIn resource that has helped 450 people find game jobs.
Amir Satvat has created a LinkedIn resource that has helped thousasnds of people find game jobs.
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How one man found game jobs for at least 450 people in the downturn | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amir Satvat has long aspired to be trusted member of the video game community. It has happened, but not in the way that he expected. And it wasn’t for his work at tech and game companies. It was through a do-it-yourself listing service on LinkedIn.

Last Thanksgiving, amid the layoffs at big tech companies like Meta, Satvat was grieving for those who were getting bad news right before the holidays. So in his off-work time, he started to use his skills with spreadsheets and data collection to do something for those people.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.