Vatsal have served as a product and engineering executive in creating operating systems, video games, virtual reality, and cloud services for the consumer (B2C) and businesses (B2B) customers at companies such as Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Zynga. The products he has created are used by billions of customers and have cumulatively generated 10s of billions of USD value.
Learn how Vatsal entered the gaming industry, how Meta and Amazon think about gaming, the unique lessons gained from working at Oculus in the early days, the power of leadership and communication, advice for people wanting to pursue a career in gaming, how AI is going to disrupt the gaming sector and so much more… #gaming #metaverse #ai
#gaming #metaverse #ai
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00:00 Intro
01:25 Explaining the metaverse
07:11 Future of the metaverse
13:02 How Vatsal got into gaming
17:27 The growth of the gaming industry
19:38 Building a career in gaming
24:20 Engineering vs. Product Management
26:06 Early days of Oculus (Facebook)
32:11 Future of Oculus and the VR space
37:17 Apple vs. Meta
38:34 Amazon's journey into gaming
46:54 Unique career learnings from Meta and Amazon
52:15 Motivating teams towards ambitious goals
56:32 Generative AI
01:04:55 Advice for others
01:09:13 How to make hard decisions using mental models
01:13:30 Outro
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