Stephen Machuga is founder of Stack Up.
Stephen Machuga is founder of Stack Up.
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Stack Up’s Stephen Machuga fights veteran suicide in a time of invisible threats

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Twenty-two a day: That’s the rate of veteran suicides that Stephen Machuga, founder of gaming charity Stack Up, is fighting against.

Machuga talked about how he’s tackling that problem in a talk at our GamesBeat Summit 2020 event. (This is one of the charities we’re raising money for today).

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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.