Neil Young, CEO of N3twork, and Mike Vorhaus of Magid Advisors at GamesBeat Summit 2016.
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N3twork’s Neil Young takes a second stab at mobile gaming greatness

Neil Young has had many lives in gaming. His latest is as the CEO of N3twork, a company that started as an interest-based social network and then pivoted into a mobile game startup a year ago.

Pivoting into mobile gaming just a year ago was a brave move, as it’s late in the game. Companies like Machine Zone, Supercell, and King dominate mobile games. But Young and his cofounder Bob Stevenson have a long history in games.

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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.