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Oct 29, 2026
Matthew ConferGUEST
Don't have a lot of time to go into that.
Matthew ConferGUEST
So sometimes I like to say it's like SimCity for leadership training.
Matthew ConferGUEST
So experiential, gamified, how do you train how to be a good manager? And that kind of has led me down a really fun path that originally got us connected.
Matthew ConferGUEST
That's all about decision making.
Melina PalmerHOST
Yeah, and so we had our first episode, right, that we had done together where we talked more about your TEDx and the work you do at Ability.
Melina PalmerHOST
So people will be able to listen to that, that's available.
Melina PalmerHOST
Can we get the, like, I know you said it's the, you know, SimCity for leadership, which I love with that.
Melina PalmerHOST
But like with the TEDx, you know, what was some of that? And let's talk about, you know, how that led into the book, right?
Aswath DamodaranHOST
It could be transactions, things that I buy in that virtual world, virtual things.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
Remember SimCity and how you could buy houses and furniture and cars.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
I mean, think of that happening in this virtual universe on a much bigger scale.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
And again, Facebook can either sell you the stuff directly or let other people sell it and take a slice of the revenue.
LevelCapHOST
If EA's showed us anything, they're very capable of killing off, you know, once world-leading franchises, basically.
LevelCapHOST
Like SimCity? What game is that? Let's just kill off that mega IP.
LevelCapHOST
Thankfully,
Matimi0HOST
other studios have come in and taken up the mantle.
LevelCapHOST
Yeah, I think they could revive SimCity one day.
LevelCapHOST
Oh, I'm sure they could.
LevelCapHOST
Well, because Skylines is kind of like, you know, it's kind of wavered a little on the last release, you know?
Matimi0HOST
Yes, City Skylines 2 wasn't as well received.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
I said, oh, my God, this is like a 1970s children's game.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
And I called it SimCity.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
It said, put in your assumption.
Martin ArmstrongGUEST
And then it said in the instructions, run it several times and take the average.
Jason SchreierGUEST
John Riccatello left.
Jason SchreierGUEST
Andrew Wilson came in as CEO around 2013 or 2014, something like that, I think 2014. because Riccatella left after SimCity, that debacle in 2013.
Jason SchreierGUEST
So like around there, Andrew Wilson comes in.
Jason SchreierGUEST
He's a guy who was running EA Sports.
Kripa AnandHOST
And also, how is Synthetic Canada helping solve health and economic challenges? Go ahead.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
So a way to think about Synthetic Canada that I've been told is the easiest for some generationally to understand is it's like Google Earth meets SimCity.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
So SimCity was a game that people have been playing for a few decades now where they sandbox.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
They actually create people, cities that don't exist or that do, but they modify them.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
And that's what we offer.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
And this is generated Canadians from publicly available data and information.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
And so they have never been identified.
Myrna BittnerGUEST
This is a SimCity population in effect.
Matt RitterHOST
How many new worlds has he created so far?
Aaron KaroHOST
Yeah, he's bringing SimCity to life.
Matt RitterHOST
I always liked Balaji.
Matt RitterHOST
I'll say it on the record.
Eric RacheffHOST
I know, like, how is he making as much money on my 18th city that I'm
SeanHOST
living in? SimCity.
SeanHOST
Like, fuck.
Eric RacheffHOST
Hidden spaces behind a wall, a walk-in vault, an elevator shaft, a chute running down to the basement.
Alex MansfieldGUEST
Politics, finance, it's day-to-day service operations, it's customer service, planning, it's everything.
Alex MansfieldGUEST
And really, what more could you want in a job? So from an early age of playing SimCity on my Super Nintendo to going to council meetings with my mother and then kind of going when she left us, obviously, and passed on, moving on to how do I take that legacy? How do I take those lessons that were instilled on me and do it with my own life my own career and try and replicate that impact so um that's kind of the where i grew up totally normal childhood apart from obviously that um but totally normal otherwise um suburban st louis but i knew i needed to see the world um at least in some see the country at least so i got my degrees in history and geography from the university of missouri uh columbia so mizzou uh and then uh which was really hard for me to accept at the time i knew that i needed to go to the university of kansas for my master's of public administration rock chalk that was extremely hard for a mizzou tiger uh they play this saturday at least for war and war recording um and it was a fantastic experience absolutely love that program love that experience love the state of kansas And then when my classwork was done, I kept going along I-70 and spent six years in the Denver metro with the cities of Golden and Thornton.
Alex MansfieldGUEST
Four years at Golden in a policy support risk management position.
Alex MansfieldGUEST
Just in the city manager's office, kind of learning everything that they did.
Wanye GretzHOST
I think it's actually good for his brain to play.
Wanye GretzHOST
Like I learned a lot playing SimCity and civilization a lot.
BaggedmilkHOST
I still play SimCity.
BaggedmilkHOST
I have it on my iPad.
Wanye GretzHOST
So like, I don't think that that's necessarily a bad, I'd sooner play SimCity than play watch TikTok, which we don't have, but like reels and YouTube and shit.
BaggedmilkHOST
I have to stop myself from TikTok because I love TikTok so much.
Wanye GretzHOST
So I've never downloaded it.
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