Andreea Enache of Blind Squirrel Games and Jon Goldman of GC Tracker Fund/Greycroft/Skybound.
Andreea Enache of Blind Squirrel Games and Jon Goldman of GC Tracker Fund/Greycroft/Skybound.
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Jon Goldman: Gaming is the best form of entertainment

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

Jon Goldman is a bit biased, but he believes that gaming will become the best form of entertainment, eclipsing film and television.

Plenty of other people agree. After all, games hit $148.8 billion in revenues in 2019 and could cross $160 billion in 2020, according to market researcher Newzoo. But Goldman is in a position to make this prediction come true, as he has been involved in a lot of game startups as well as Skybound, the intellectual property owner of The Walking Dead property that Robert Kirkman created.

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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.