226: Pursuit of Happiness | Neal Peters, JR Studio and Giving Game Creators Superpowers
Neal Peters is co-founder and CEO of JR Studio, a frictionless web3 gaming platform that gives game creators the superpowers to build, host, launch, manage, and grow their games and communities.
JR Studio is also one of the 12 founding teams forming the Techstars Web3 accelerator class of 2023.
After launching his first business as a 14-year-old gamer building websites, Neal spent 18 years as an IT architect and in public/private/hybrid cloud, software development, and blockchain. He also co-founded and led a venture capital business during the last crypto bull run focused on web3 gaming and NFTs, and that was the step that led him towards getting together with Marco Colaco and Aleks Gecevski in 2022 to build what has become JR Studio.
In this episode, Neal and Pete Townsend riff on his earliest days in tech and the eventual path that he took with Marco and Aleks with JR Studio, before diving into what JR-Studio is now and what it will become. We also get into the long arc of infrastructure and innovation we’ll need to get to the Hollywood vision of the metaverse, and the role of gaming in that journey, along with what Neal points to in his own development as a founder that helps to keep things moving.
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Learn more about JR Studio
Connect with Neal Peters on LinkedIn and Twitter
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Episode title inspired by ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ by Kid Cudi (Steve Aoki remix)
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