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"Plus, who out there is starting a game company?"

The target audience for "Founders at work" is not just news.YC ;)



Sure, but like I said on my blog, if even Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin started Flektor instead of a game company, is there a whole lot of opportunity out there for anyone else?

http://www.zachbaker.com/articles/2007/05/19/congrats-to-flektor

That was also around the time last year at E3 where Warren Spector gave his advice to those who wanted to start the next big studio:

"You have a zero percent chance of success. The barrier to entry in terms of cost, quality required, access to a market... forget it."




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