Kabam

wham, bam, I was

at Kabam.

And that was sort of my first time being at like a crazy fast growth startup.

And it was like, okay, we are all distributing our games on the App Store.

Matt started his career at Lucasfilm, a dream job for me back in the day.

He then went on to Kabam as Director of Product and Monetization and Zynga as VP of Growth.

Along the way, he held other executive roles in gaming and became a startup advisor and investor.

I first met Matt when he joined us at Roblox as VP of Developer Relations.

All right.

Let's dive in.

Given your time at Kabam and Zynga and Roblox, as well as your experiences advising companies and building games, what are the core elements of speed that startup leaders should be building?

Yeah, I think generally speed is extremely important, obviously, but a lot of people miscategorize it.

Who knows? But I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Darkhawk will be the tech champion for the 2026 Banquet.

I'm going to put good money on that one because I feel like that is where Kabam is leaning towards.

Next up here in the science class, this one I had a little bit of a tough time trying to really find, but there was one champion I think that is literally flying under the radar that could be a very fun science champion.

And it's very similar to what a banquet champion last year was like, where you didn't really think much about her.

But I think Hercules... is kind of falling into the same problem that Aegon has, where it's like, okay, well, what content can I use Hercules on? Because for me, he's a big incursions guy, but with Cosmic Ghost Rider, I use him everywhere that I can.

He's just, you know, he's an absolute killer.

And if Kabam says, hey, we want to put, you know, Cosmic Ghost Rider in the banquet pool, I mean, I think the players are going to just be like, holy crap, this could be one of the best banquet events ever.

If they put Hercules in there, I believe the attitude will be the same.

The jury for me is still out on Cable, but it's just really cool to have.

It's another mutant champion that I can put in, and it definitely goes towards my Supreme Collection objectives as well, which by the way, if anybody from Kabam is listening, could you please put a counter on that? Because I wanna know, like, where I stand in terms of how many champions I need to get to complete said objectives.

Just saying.

Um, so but like I said, the Wakandan challenge is really, really cool.

Cartoon logic.

Um, and so yes, kabam, he hits him right through and, uh, you see his, uh, Luffy's look of determination.

Of course, uh, always bears repeating throughout this fight, very bloody.

Does not look like he has recovered at all.

Why Kabam should be taking notes from the Revenge of Legends Gauntlet and why they should also maybe promote somebody to make the game a lot more fun.

This is the MCO CME Podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Rossi.

This gauntlet thing from the Revenge of Legends, man, I had a good time doing this one.

And I want to explain what made it fun for me.

the rewards that I got from it, and also why Kabam needs to seriously consider taking the player feedback notes from this and maybe promoting a content creator to make life a lot more fun in the game.

Now, I'm not going to give any kind of like a boss guide on this thing.

Just that's not the point of the episode.