Navigating the gaming industry and business evolution
With Alexis Gresoviac, Founder, ACE Consulting
Alexis Gresoviac has spent over 25 years in the gaming industry, and the path is not the tidy one you would expect. He started out wanting to be a vet, then went on to launch Gameloft Japan, lead Blizzard Entertainment Korea, and now runs ACE Consulting advising C-suite teams. In this one we get into that journey and what it actually takes to scale ventures, build partnerships, and navigate the politics inside large organisations.
What stuck with me was how much of it comes back to people and to not letting a title define you. Alexis talks about defining yourself beyond labels, about relationships being the real way you move through a corporate structure, and about the joy of creation being the thing that keeps you building. He also gets into mentorship and how the younger generation is thinking differently about work, and he closes with a book recommendation that ties the whole thing together.
Key takeaways
- Twenty five years in, the through line is flexibility. Alexis went from wanting to be a vet to launching Gameloft Japan and leading Blizzard Korea.
- Define yourself beyond the labels. Your title is not who you are, and the people who get that move through corporate structures far more freely.
- Relationships are how you actually navigate a big organisation. The politics are real, and people are what get you through them.
- The reason to build a business is the joy of creation. That is the part that keeps you in it.
- Mentorship matters, and the way younger founders think about work is shifting. Worth paying attention to if you are leading them.
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