Patrick Lee

@playlastflag @loltyler1 @DanReynolds @Erobb221 @realmacreynolds Awesome!!!

Don't miss brothers vs brothers in the Last Flag BRODOWN THROWDOWN @loltyler1 and @DanReynolds will face @Erobb221 and @realmacreynolds in the ultimate game of Capture the Flag! 🗓️ Feb 23 at 2PM PT ▶️ Twitch.tv/PlayLastFlag #LastFlag #BrodownThrowdown

Last Flag is officially in Open Beta on Steam and Epic! You can play the game for free right here: store.steampowered.com/app/2721340/La… @playlastflag

@edenchen Good luck with the new product!

Games marketing is broken. After raising over $50M to support and work with hundreds of studios over the last 6 years, I find that the biggest problem is studios’ lack of direct connection with their players. Over the last six years, I’ve watched talented teams struggle because they never had a clear way to reach, learn from, and grow with players over time. Without that connection, everything becomes harder - validation, iteration, community growth, and retention all turn into guesswork. For most of the games industry’s history, platforms have controlled identity, communication, and distribution, which are invaluable to a game’s success. Apple limited how studios could collect and use player contact information outside the App Store, and Steam still doesn’t give studios access to the contact details of players who wishlist or sign up for playtests. Studios are left without a direct relationship with the audience they’re trying to serve. As a result, studios rely on fragmented tools and spreadsheets to manage players across different stages of development and live operations, with no continuity from first contact through long-term engagement. Today, that changes with the launch of FirstLook 1.0. FirstLook is the first Player Relationship Platform built specifically for games. It gives studios everything they need to connect with players across the full lifecycle, including playtests and feedback, community and communications, analytics, rewards, and creator programs, all in one place. We’ve been building under the radar, but FirstLook already powers hundreds of studios, from indies to publishers like Krafton, @ArenaNet, and @Skybound, connecting millions of players with the developers who make the games they love. As part of the launch, we’re introducing a brand new limited time free plan, with access to all our features for up to 500 players. You can set this up now in under 10 minutes. If you want to learn more, book a demo and we guarantee that you will save you time and money and help you grow. Links in comments!

Inworld TTS-1.5 releases today. The #1 TTS on Artificial Analysis now offers realtime latency under 250ms and optimized expression and stability for user engagement, and costs half a cent per minute. Some voice models are fast, some are expressive, some are affordable. We outperform them all across the board. Production-grade realtime latency: <250ms latency for Max model, <130ms for Mini (P90 first audio) - 4x faster than before. Voice agents now respond before users notice any delay. Engagement-optimized quality: 30% more expressive to serve a wider range of personalities and 40% lower word error rates for fewer hallucinations, word cutoffs, and audio artifacts. Built for consumer-scale: Radically affordable with enhanced multilingual support (15 languages including Hindi) and enhanced voice cloning, now via API. On-prem options now available for enterprises.

Check out "Death Name" for FREE on Tubi: lnkd.in/grYnMWYP Trailer: lnkd.in/gihEeH2a A young Korean American woman yearns to learn more about her heritage, not knowing the further she digs, the more she reawakens a deadly family curse.

Many thanks to Chong Seow Wei & @TatlerAsia for the article!🍅 Seven start-ups later, Rotten Tomatoes co-founder Patrick Lee now knows when to quit tatlerasia.com/power-purpose/…

Amazing how far you've come @felipekiwi90 !

@AlisaCohn @RottenTomatoes Appreciate the interview! Always great chatting with you. =)

“Irrational confidence” That’s what Patrick Lee @rottendoubt, co-founder and founding CEO of @RottenTomatoes told me. The great entrepreneurs distinguish themselves by: Believing in themselves when they have no reason to. Keeping their eyes on their north star and moving forward. Converting No’s to Yes’s. That belief becomes their edge. Because often, not knowing the box is exactly what allows you to think outside it. 💡 🎧 Catch the full conversation with Patrick Lee on From Start-Up to Grown-Up available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Buzzsprout. Link below!

Thanks so much for having me on the podcast @AlisaCohn !

@Appyg99 @BesteverAI Congrats on the launch!

Imagine an apparel brand with 80,000 products trying to generate video ads for each of them! It's humanly impossible for large e-commerce businesses generate video ads at scale today. Excited to announce @BesteverAI Commerce today that solves this.

On Christmas Eve 2019, Michael Seibel, then CEO of YC, called me: “You might not be cut out to be a founder.” He was right. We had pivoted 20 times. I thought I could always return to my 7-figure quant job. That night, I realized: you commit or you quit. Fast forward: Motion raised $60M at $550M. Michael is now a personal investor.

Inworld Runtime is live! The first AI runtime built to auto-scale consumer apps from prototype to millions of users, automate MLOps, and launch one-click AI experiments. We heard you: “I vibe-coded a prototype in 4 hours. Why does it take us 4 months to launch?” We delivered: - Adaptive Graphs: Auto-scale from 10 to 10M users. No rework. - Automated MLOps: Ops, telemetry, optimizations automatically. - Live Experiments: Instant A/B tests, no code changes. Thanks to partners like @nvidia @Google @Xbox @Disney @NBCUniversal @MistralAI @NianticLabs @minimax_ai for the early collab. Wins from early access partners: Status hit 1M users in 19 days, Bible Chat scaled voice features, @streamlabs nailed real-time multimodal magic.

Please come check out this panel at SDCC 2025! Saturday, July 26th 1-2pm in Room 7AB.

I’m hiring a product designer for Sudowrite. This is a dream job for a designer who loves to write. The beginning of the listing is… a mini therapy sesh for me. You’d think it’d be chill after that. But no, it goes on to talk about our company cult… sudowrite.com/jobs/designer

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The world premiere trailer for the new capture the flag team shooter @playlastflag just dropped at #SummerGameFest!  It's the first title from Night Street Games, founded by brothers Dan and Mac Reynolds of Imagine Dragons (lead singer and manager).

We recently acquired robot.com Here's why — and what's behind it.

@CallGigiAI just dropped. Gigi is the AI who knows everyone. She scraped your online life, psychoanalyzed you, and now she’s telling you who you should actually meet. You didn’t sign up. You already have a profile. You already have a ranking. You can run a vibe check on anyone. People you like. People you hate. Obviously, we started with you: the tech crowd. Because let’s be honest, you all secretly want to match with each other anyway. Let the party begin.