Jon Epstein

Absolutely.

Let's go.

Yeah, GameSpot, GameSpy, Omech, IGN had a good exit as well.

I've always enjoyed staying on the forefront.

Say that again?

Well, it ranged anywhere from in the tens of millions into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Some were better than others.

Some of the startups didn't fare so well.

That's such is the nature of startups.

GameSpy, yes, GameSpy was the president.

Actually, it was more of a turnaround.

GameSpy had been sold to ZDNet and then CNET and had invested in GameSpy.

And when 2001 came and sort of the website market was contracting, I jumped over to help the CEO of GameSpy turn it around and achieved a pretty successful sale to IGN.

You know, yes and no.

So I have worked at an actual gaming company.

Most of my life has been, you know, except for the last eight years, was focused on media and other elements related to gaming.

So I started out at IDG as a magazine publisher, originally on the technical side and then into the multimedia space.

That's what brought me into gaming because

Games were the applications that really have always stretched our PCs and our phones the most in terms of requirements for new features, which back then was sound and CD-ROM.

So GameSpot was the first really professional online reviews site for games.