We're in India

hey everybody so paul and i are here in india for 30 days 30 days just wanted to give everyone an update in terms of what's been going on and kind of provide even some more information on why we actually came here and it actually all starts with trying to find a partner [Music] [Music] [Music] and i think that one of the things that happens in the industry a lot is in finding a partner there isn't enough due diligence that happens and so what we really wanted to do is to work

directly with the people who we may be partnered for over the long term over potentially several years and so that's not something you figure out over a couple of meetings that's something that you figure out through actually working together and so we've been here working on a prototype for a new game that paul has designed that we think has a very it's very innovative and we think he has a really great shot for being a really fantastic product but when it comes down to it you know we're here we're sacrificing six weeks of our lives here because we think it's worth it and really you know companies are about people and fundamentally we have to get to know the people who we're going to work with i don't know if you have anything to add to that paul yeah well um a lot of people said six weeks it's a long time in india uh i don't think most people would make that commitment um but that's where we felt the opportunity right you know everyone says

make a sacrifice to you know uncommon success is from you know uncommon rewards from uncommon risk right so we're out here six weeks felt like it would be a long time but now that there's only two weeks left we've been here 30 days it's actually sometimes we think we could use more time like we're running out of time we feel like so you know it's been it's been it's been totally worthwhile just to keep it light for for a minute what has surprised you about indiana in our state here uh my nightly era morning routines having to be careful from the water so i was told to be careful from drinking the water so i have to use this like magic uv wand light to make sure that i don't get sick because i'm just from somewhere really far away and um i think that's the most surprising thing the time that we've spent here i think has been fantastic the people are amazing very friendly probably friendlier proportionally than in the us or in many

other countries certainly yeah but i will say that just speaking about the environment i think one of the key lessons i've learned is really about trying to ignore the external and just focus on the internal like what can i do for myself to make myself better how do i focus on what i can control and so that's been for me a growing opportunity yeah and that's what i was telling you we were talking about this offline but just being here and having done all this is is actually enough in it of itself even if the build never came through even if we never structured a deal just being here and trying to work this out going home with what we've what i've learned personally would be enough anything from here out is all great it's all gravy yeah just cherry on top so you know whether whatever outcome happens i think it was totally worth it to come for the time being and i think for me personally

like some of the the value that i've gotten for being here in india is like we've been here we're actually working on a product so i feel like that pressure like working with a full team working on something tangible has really accelerated our thinking and sure i know for you for your design you've been able to really like move really quickly and then for me just thinking about leadership about organizational structure thinking about what is it going to take for us to build the type of organization that can launch a hit product against some pretty formidable experts yeah guys that will out resource us a thousand to one with full world-class teams we can get them we can beat them i i think so i think so we can get there we can at least compete but it's you know but i i think in order to do that you need to find your areas of structural advantage

you need to figure out you know how to pla we need to figure out how to play to our strengths and that sort of thing and i also think that what has really made us think a lot about is this issue that we've been talking about a lot which is that fundamentally when we think about people and you know as i mentioned recently the companies are all about people but for us to get the point to be able to compete against some of these other companies out there we're gonna have to figure out how to make people change right and when we think about people most people dislike change it's just a natural response but for us to become the kind of organization for us to be the kind of people that we want to be that we want our team to be all of us are going to have to improve that starts with us and so like how do you actually motivate people how do you actually get people in an organization to change and by change i mean change for the better adopting you know best practices

being more disciplined having difficult conversations adopting the kind of values and culture that we believe are going to be necessary to be able to compete against some of those guys out there so yeah we are going to gdc if anyone watching this video wants to talk to us or meet us at gdc we're open hit us up hit us up and uh i think that's it from pune india yeah yeah all right later later everybody you