1:30- Building a company and not getting distracted by the product itself
2:05- Childhood with entrepreneurial parents
3:30- Growing up surrounded by the medical industry
5:12- Gaming as a kid
8:00- Going to business school rather than medical or law school
9:22- Post-business school, Working at the World Bank
10:30- Working at AOL
11:16- The acquisition side of business
12:12- Investor relations software
14:20- Helping venture capitalists manage their portfolios
14:52- Lesson learned with failing: “Believe and be driven to consistently work on something”
16:20- Hard conversations with co-founders
17:38- Joining Newscred and the opportunity to learn from a startup and a founder with a great reputation
19:40- Getting experience with “no risk”
20:05- Assumption that entrepreneurs are big into taking risks
21:18- Newscred project- Building a million-dollar business in a year
24:22- Transition from building content management and licensing stuff to building Parsec gaming
26:09- The right time to start a company
28:14- Timeshift data- You always want to work where time shift is going
28:45- Transitioning out of Newscred to Parsec full-time
29:35- First-day kickoff feeling
30:27- Realizing the idea might actually work
33:55- Releasing a broken thing as your first version
35:03- Paying Parsec
36:37- Looking different than most New York tech companies
37:00- Keeping momentum up
38:06- Getting the next thing done while maintaining a stable thought process on your business
39:01- Being practical people and celebrating the wins
42:15- Seeing risks on the table for your company
42:55- Parsec as a consumer-facing gaming company versus working with larger companies
48:00- “I enjoy owning lots of my company”
49:10- Using media as a way of entertaining and communicating with people
51:05- Looking ahead: The next year for Parsec
53:30- Go big or go home
How to reach Benjy: Twitter, Parsec Gaming, Email- benjy@parsecgaming.com
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