Our guest in this episode is Erik Bethke. Erik has been making video games since the early 90s and has incredible depth of knowledge about the past, present, and future of business models in the gaming space.

Currently Erik is the CEO of Million on Mars as well as an advisor to ARCatar.

If you are a gamer or a streamer please sign up for early access on the ARCatar website, starting in just a few weeks!

In this episode Joshua and I talk about how many mainstream narratives about gaming should be re-thought or thrown out. Many modern video games may be better for our brains than reading. You'll learn that about half of kids in America have a Roblox account, that Josh is doing the hard work of meeting them where they are, and that many of us should follow his lead.

Sign up for early access to the ARCatar ecosystem here!

Studies mentioned in the podcast:

• Manpower group study on workforce trends and hiring for gaming skills
• NIH study:  Video Gaming May Be Associated With Better Cognitive Performance in Children

On this episode of Market Principles we host Scott Moran and we talk about how creators make money. 

Scott is the co-founder of SamCart, the #1 checkout solution for creators. SamCart has helped more than 17,000 entrepreneurs sell more than $3.5 Billion of their own services, downloads, courses, coaching, and more.  

Check out Scott's e-book on how creators make money: https://www.samcart.com/creator-profits-report

If you are an MMO gamer or streamer, don't forget to sign up for early access to ARCatar: https://www.arcatar.com/early-access-sign-up

The creator economy has become an absolute force but few are familiar with it. In this podcast, Brandon Llinas, Director of Partnerships at ARCatar, shares his experiences and learnings after having worked across multiple business in the creator space. 

If you are a gamer or a streamer please sign up for early access to ARCatar using the below link:

https://www.arcatar.com/beta-sign-up

On this episode, the first of The Startups, Pranav Batra (Texas A&M undergrad extraordinare) and Matt interview technology expert, Jay Williams. Jay is an internet OG: he built one of the first internet service providers, Neosoft, and following that co-founded Net Explorer, one of the first Netscape and Java development companies. Since then he has had many successes as CTO and consultant for many of the Global 2000.

Today we are talking about how to think about operational scalability at early stage technology companies. We also wrote about these ideas on our blog - let us know what you think!