"Chasing the Fun" with Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn Entertainment, moderated by Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games - Details - Boss Stage
"Chasing the Fun" with Vince Zampella, CEO of Respawn Entertainment, moderated by Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games - Details - Boss Stage
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The DeanBeat: Building visionary triple-A game studios that last

One of my favorite business books is Built to Last: Successful habits of visionary companies, by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. Starting the 1990s, they studied thousands of companies to figure out what made some exceptional. They focused on 18 companies that had lasted for generations, including HP and Disney, and explained what made them different.

And at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2019 event, we sorted through a lot of candidates to come up with 97 speakers. We studied those and — with a group of 10 judges — we gave a Visionary Award to Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, which has been making games such as Spyro the Dragon and Marvel’s Spider-Man — a smash hit on Sony’s PlayStation 4 last fall.

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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.