This Entrepreneur Raised $75 Million To Build The Ultimate Immersive Gaming Platform
Bård Anders Kasin is now on his second tech start. His most recent venture has already raised a substantial amount of capital to create a whole new category of tech-driven entertainment. On the Dealmakers Show, he shared how he got started working on the Matrix movies at just 16 years old, the psychology of raising big funding rounds, and the cons of being in stealth mode. Plus, finding the right business model for you, category creation, and how his company is pushing the boundaries and is creating the next generation of technology and entertainment.
Bård Anders Kasin is now on his second tech start. His most recent venture has already raised a substantial amount of capital to create a whole new category of tech-driven entertainment.
On the Dealmakers Show, he shared how he got started working on the Matrix movies, the psychology of raising big funding rounds, and the cons of being in stealth mode. Plus, finding the right business model for you, category creation, and how his company is pushing the boundaries and is creating the next generation of technology and entertainment.
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- 1. Career Hacking
- 2. Getting Started
- 3. Future Group
- 4. Portal One
- 5. Startup Fundraising
Career Hacking
Bard Anders Kasin grew up in a small town in Norway. Despite its size, his community has a record of producing some pretty impactful startups. A factor that certainly provided some inspiration, courage, and influence for what he is doing today.
He had really found a love for computers and technology by the time he hit high school. Especially in the form of 3D graphics.
One day the CEO of a big industrial company noticed him playing with one of his 3D helicopter models. He asked if it could be applied to visualizing their factories around the world. Bard agreed and began getting paid for his passion at just 16 years old. Every day after school he would go right to work until midnight.
When the time came that he needed to upgrade his computer, he found the
0,000 machines financially out of reach. He got creative and found a used one for sale from Coca-Cola in Canada. Its graphics card was broken, but he found a hack in the form of getting the bank to finance purchasing it for $7,000, and covering the cost of a support agreement. Which in turn enabled him to get Silicon Graphics to replace that graphics card.
Getting Started
When Warner Brothers was looking for people to help work on the Matrix Moves, Silicon Graphics wrote him a letter of recommendation.
This landed him in San Francisco, working with the best people in the world in this space. There they were applying game technology to movies and creating the visual effects we’ve all come to love.
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