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Sweepstakes startup Kizzang loses two top executives (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Las Vegas sweepstakes startup Kizzang has lost two top executives who helped form the company earlier this year.

Kizzang launched in March, when it announced it will give away $7.7 million in a March Madness college basketball bracket contest. Founder Robert Alexander, a 27-year veteran of the game console business, told us at the time that the company would offer big sweepstakes prizes and recruit participants via modern social means. The idea was to combine web-based games with fantasy sports, online play, and sweepstakes.

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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.