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Mitch Lasky
American businessman (born 1962) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mitchell Harold "Mitch" Lasky (born January 18, 1962) is a general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark[3] and a former entrepreneur and video game executive.
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Education and early career
Lasky received a B.A. degree in History and Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.[4]
Early in his career, Lasky practiced law at the Los Angeles firm Irell & Manella, where he worked on various technology-related intellectual property cases.[5] In 1993, he joined The Walt Disney Company.[6] He left Disney in 1994 to launch a multiplayer online game company, Serum Entertainment Software.[4]
Lasky subsequently spent five years at video game publisher Activision, including a stint as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios,[7] helping to launch Quake 3, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Spider-Man.
In 2000,[8] he joined mobile games company JAMDAT as CEO,[9] and took the company public in 2004.[10] Electronic Arts acquired JAMDAT for $680 million in 2006.[6] Lasky served as executive vice president of mobile and online games at Electronic Arts from 2006 to 2007, after the JAMDAT acquisition.[11]
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Benchmark
Lasky joined Benchmark in 2007 as a general partner.[12] He focuses on identifying investment opportunities in mobile, games, digital privacy and identity, and online education.[12] He has led the firm’s investments in and serves on the boards of Snapchat, Ubiquity6,[13] CyanogenMod, Engine Yard, Gaia, Riot Games, PlayFab,[14] Vivox, Grockit, Gaikai, RedRobot, Meteor Entertainment, thatgamecompany, and NaturalMotion.[6][15][16][17][18][19][20]
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Personal life
Mitch Lasky is the father of musician and former YouTuber Benjamin "Quadeca" Lasky.[21]
References
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