Speakers
Find a full list of this year's GDC Festival of Gaming speakers here.
Joost van Dreunen, Professor, Investor & Serial Entrepreneur in Interactive Entertainment, NYU Stern, Aldora
Joost van Dreunen teaches the economics and business of video games at NYU's Stern School of Business and is an investor and serial entrepreneur. He has sold multiple data and technology companies, including to Nielsen (2018), Unity (2023), and Sensor Tower (2025), in transactions totaling more than $400 million. He is the author of One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games. He writes the SuperJoost Playlist, a newsletter on the business of games read by executives, investors, and operators across the industry. His commentary appears regularly in outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Verge, WIRED, and others. Across his newsletter, his teaching at Stern, and his platform on LinkedIn, he reaches a global audience of industry leaders.