Peter Rojas

Been a while since I’ve posted anything here, but figured I’d at least mention that I’ve been with Mozilla for the past year or so, leading their New Products organization.

This past Friday was my last day with Betaworks Ventures.

Despite my hesitation to commit to new projects at the moment, I’ve launched a new newsletter on social gaming called Metaplay.

I’ve been wondering if remote-first companies could use a video game that employees play together as a way to facilitate the kind of relationship building and culture development that can be tough to create when everyone’s not in an office together.

Last week Nintendo published new usage guidelines for Animal Crossing that make it expressly clear that you cannot use the game for commercial purposes, including marketing your business, selling custom designs, or earning ad revenue with game content.

A version of this first was posted as a thread on Twitter.

This was originally posted as Twitter thread.

Some news: I have a new podcast.

For the past couple of years we’ve been doing Betaworks Camps, a program for startups building in emerging categories.

I’ve been doing open office hours off and on for the past few years, both in person and over Skype, but last month I decided to try something different and experiment with holding office hours over Telegram.