Daniel Ek: belief

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…It's like what we were talking about on the Nintendo episode. There are always only going to be a handful of Shigeru Miyamotos in the world. But until recently, and in the gaming industry, it's still pretty much the case, you need to also have the luck of being the Venn diagram of a Shigeru Miyamoto who happened to be the arcade cabinet designer at Nintendo in order for the possibility of Mario and Zelda to happen. In music and podcasting, now in this world, everybody has the opportunity. Not everybody is a Shigeru Miyamoto. Not everybody is a Bad Bunny. Most people aren't, but you have the opportunity to be one. I think that's so interesting. I was talking to Ted Sarandos about this. He's on our board. This was a number of months ago. If you think about filmmaking, as you said, one of the things about Nintendo is you have to have the resources enabled to build a game, and that's still not cheap and expensive. Back in the day, maybe you had to build the entire console in order to even have a chance of doing it. But these days, still, a triple A game is... A few hundred million dollars.…

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