Robert Antokol, CEO of Playtika talks with Michael Metzger of Drake Star Partners.

Playtika’s Robert Antokol is ready to acquire — he just needs to find the right teams

Playtika‘s Robert Antokol doesn’t speak publicly that often. I did a fireside chat with him at Casual Connect in Israel in 2015, and he said that was the last time he did such a talk. But since Playtika went public at $11 billion in January in an initial public offering, Antokol will have a higher profile. And we’re pleased to have him as a speaker at the GamesBeat Summit 2021 event this year in a fireside chat with Michael Metzger of Drake Star Partners.

Antokol started out by saying that Playtika was actually his third company, and that everything he did in his career was around games. So gaming isn’t his hobby.

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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.