Fawzi Itani @fawzitani
@forerunnerVC + writing about video games @naavik_co naavik.co SF Joined January 2019-
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six months from October 7th and I think about what Gabriel Winant wrote on the 13th
Launching a new initiative today: Tech For Palestine Over 40 tech folks – founders, engineers, product, marketers – working to change tech. Join us! blog.paulbiggar.com/tech-for-pales…
Naavik Digest: VC Edition 📈 @fawzitani asked six different gaming VCs how they think about the current climate in game investing, what they’re spending their time on, and what makes them excited for the future. We compiled answers from: - Moritz Baier-Lentz, Partner at…
.@mitchlasky re: "Investing in content" (2012, Blog Archive)
New essay! A few months ago, @fawzitani came to me with a question: Why do so many games look like anime and comics these days? Today, I'm sharing my findings, in partnership with @naavik_co:
We're leading the $20M round for JUMP, an ambitious new approach to the fan experience, founded by the incomparable @jordyleiser, @MarcLore and @AROD: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
makes me think that the $200M back catalogue deal with Justin Bieber was actually a steal (?) IP / content rights / likeness is more important than ever
makes me think that the $200M back catalogue deal with Justin Bieber was actually a steal (?) IP / content rights / likeness is more important than ever
A key focus @ForerunnerVC for 2023 (and beyond): the traditional needs of non-traditional consumers, as core life fundamentals have become increasingly fragile and complicated. The Next Wave of Game-Changing Companies Will be Life-Changing Companies forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectiv…
Introducing Fikra Magazine, “a Project by Palestinians and for Palestinians arablit.org/2023/01/25/int…
Today we're officially announcing and opening applications to Campus 🏛️ 1/ A “school” for the soul, intellect, and inner-child: 🔭community-created curriculum exploring our curiosities 🌱 50+ circles, salons, juntos and extracurriculars 🤓 "nerd prom" at end of the qtr
new dungeon master just dropped
starting an ongoing thread of my favorite 3rd spaces or "community living rooms" in San Francisco 🛋️ 📍Arcana - a bar x plant shop in the mission that hosts a line-up of local musicians.
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Blake Robbins @blakeir
61K Followers 980 Following hanging out on the edges of the internet @benchmark | co-host @gamecraftpod
Jon Lai @Tocelot
34K Followers 2K Following GP & cofounder @a16z games 🎮🌱 | former PM @RiotGames @TencentGames | dark souls fan & dad to 3 zerglings
Ryan Wyatt @Fwiz
424K Followers 9K Following Chief Growth Officer serving the @Optimism Collective 🔴
Josh Lu @JoshLu
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Naavik @naavik_co
5K Followers 10 Following Naavik is a research, consulting, and advisory firm that enables professionals to master the business of gaming.
Matt Dion @mdion_games
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andrew chen @andrewchen
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ryze 👾 @0xRyze
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jason yeh @jasonoliver
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ꕥ Amber Atherton @AmberAtherton
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Forerunner @ForerunnerVC
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Nicole Seah @nicolesseah
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Zeya @zeyalater
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Jack | d20.eth 🎮 @d20_eth
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Arda Bulut @ardab99
384 Followers 176 Following Entrepreneur @theorcanetwork_ building the future of venture + bridging the gap between investors and founders Prev: AI @ Stanford, Pro Soccer Player
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Blake Robbins @blakeir
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Paul Graham @paulg
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Jon Lai @Tocelot
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Ryan Wyatt @Fwiz
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Josh Lu @JoshLu
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Naavik @naavik_co
5K Followers 10 Following Naavik is a research, consulting, and advisory firm that enables professionals to master the business of gaming.
Matt Dion @mdion_games
825 Followers 492 Following Founder, Always Scheming https://t.co/2yixHNQBMp Writing about onchain games @ Dark Tunnels: https://t.co/fBPjOsw2Zm Contributor @ Naavik
Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak
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SuperJoost @joosterizer
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andrew chen @andrewchen
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Justine Moore @venturetwins
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Sriram Krishnan - sri.. @sriramk
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ryze 👾 @0xRyze
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Jerry Song @jerrysong64
149 Followers 540 Following MD-PhD Student @StanfordMed & Lipshultz Fellow @Stanford_ChEMH || Previously @BroadInstitute, @UniofOxford, @NIH, @JohnsHopkins | he, him | 🏳️🌈 🇨🇳
Wayne Hu @waynejwhu
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Redouane Ramdani @RamdaniRedouane
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Matteo Trentini @_matteotrentini
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Zeeza Cole @ZeezaCole
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Nicole Seah @nicolesseah
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Karim Ahmad @KarimAhmad92
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Urvashi @urvashibarooah
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jess lozano @JessLozanoS
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Zeya @zeyalater
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Joshua Wilde (FireFro.. @liquidsunlabs
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Omar S @OmarS_CA
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Noura Erakat @4noura
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fuck. it is time. imma tweet twice a day for a month and see what happens. i already don't like this and i already know this is so good for me.
@andrewrsorkin As of last month 55% of Americans disapprove of the war in Gaza. Are you ACTUALLY suggesting to retaliate against students expressing their views on the same because of a handful of isolated antisemitic incidents? Never mind violence directed at Arabs and Palestinians?…
what are the best scout programs I have a founder who’s about to cook the entire LLM app layer
Ben-Gvir on the floor after a serious car crash this afternoon. Hopefully the car is alright.
And this proud, steadfast baba was at the protest with his baba. Beautiful intergenerational support for Palestine.
"She rather be arrested for fighting for Palestine, I’d be the happiest daddy” Lazaro, a father of student USC, expresses his support for his daughter activism in protesting against Israel’s genocide in Los Angeles.🇵🇸
With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an…
while CNN and NYT are going out of their way interviewing students who feel "uncomfortable" at Columbia, 4,327 students and 231 teachers and administrators have been murdered in Palestine.
If you thought you'd had enough of the "going direct" debate in startup comms, you thought wrong! I'll be sharing all my top secret PR tricks @StartupGrind with @cckarl @allisonbraley and @emiliecole on Weds: startupgrind.tech/conference/spe…
🚨HAPPENING NOW! Massive crowd of faculty walk out in solidarity with students and with the movement for Palestine at @Columbia University.
Did a memo go out to all these people who haven’t said a word about anything to all of a sudden start jumping on this nonsense? What videos are they referencing that show while antisemitism, exactly?
The videos coming out of @Columbia are vile. Peaceful protest is an American right, but this anti-semitism ain't it. It was just as vile when it was the right chanting "Jews will not replace us" at UVA — now that it's coming from the left doesn't make it OK.…
I don't always agree with @DavidSacks but in this situation I believe he's right on accurate. 🎯
Is Gaza becoming Israel's "Vietnam Moment"? ... and if so, will protestors be vindicated in the fullness of time? @DavidSacks laid out his case, describing some notable similarities between the two wars: 1) In terms of "destroying Hamas," the war is unwinnable -- Israel faces…
I appreciate how @DavidSacks frequently has a novel take on things. You can tell this mind is unshackled from the default "reasoning by tribe" and can generate more dispassionate thoughts. Listen to his take on the controversial Gaza protestors in the latest All In:
It has been a week full of amazing things but this shout-out by @florencemachine just shot me into the stratosphere. And the song is a BOP. 😭
UNC admin doesn’t want our tents on the ground so we did as such!
.@wonder is reshaping the restaurant & delivery model so great food can (finally) scale. It's secret ingredient for success? Chefs' approval. Says @ChefJJ "I talk to Bobby Flay about it all the time. He’s like, ‘JJ, I wish I had a @MarcLore at your age.’” eater.com/24125349/wonde…
UNC students right now starting an encampment outside of the university administration building in solidarity with Columbia students and Palestine 🇵🇸
I have never seen anything like this happen before at Columbia. There is no fear left among students. Organizers were arrested en masse & when I got out of jail, I was told students occupied another lawn on their own. Hundreds are willing to risk arrest. I am so filled with hope.
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