Mitch Lasky (left) of Benchmark and Eric Goldberg of Playable Worlds at GamesBeat Summit 2025. Source: GamesBeat
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The new normal for the game economy and investments | Mitch Lasky and Eric Goldberg

Mitch Lasky, a general partner at Benchmark, has been the most successful U.S. venture capitalist in games, based on exits such as Riot Games.

He is the perfect person to look in the rear-view mirror to understand what has happened in the up-and-down game business and what might happen in its future. His views were previewed in this high-profile panel I moderated earlier this year, but in this session we had a chance to focus on his own perspective.

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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.