Lex Fridman

The following is a conversation with Dan Houser, a legendary video game creator, co-founder of Rockstar Games, and the creative force behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, which includes some of the best-selling games of all time and some of the greatest games of all time.

Both Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 has some of the deepest, most complex and heart-wrenching characters and storylines ever created in video games.

Dan has started a new company, Absurd Ventures, great name, that is creating some incredible new worlds in multiple forms, including books, comic books, audio series, and yes, video games.

That includes A Better Paradise, which is a dystopian near-future world with a super-intelligent AI, American Caper, which is an insanely chaotic, violent, dark, satirical world, and Absurdiverse, which is a comedic action-adventure world.

I'm excited to explore all three of these.

I have spent...

hundreds of hours and worlds that Dan has helped create.

So this conversation was an incredible honor for me.

And on top of that, Dan and I talked a lot after and in the days since, and he has been just a wonderful human being.

I'm just at a loss of words.

I feel like the luckiest kid in the world.

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