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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Blizzard has been one of the founders of e-sports, an created many of the early e-sports games, and Riot Games is well known for League of Legends.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We try to cap our A-funds at around $300 million so we retain the discipline to invest early and small while building our Growth Platform separately to do late stage deals (we now have > $300 million in Growth AUM). In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ?