The Business of Gaming and One Entrepreneur's Viral Success

Nate Gray is the CEO of Wingnut Digital, a rewards-based gaming company. He is an innovator, investor, and advisor who, as a child of the "gaming boom," developed a lifelong fascination with the ways video games tie together engineering, storytelling, and design—among other disciplines.  Nate's experiences include travelling extensively abroad,  serving as an international instructor in Shanghai, and working at one of the "Big Five" publishers, where he edited the books of such literary luminaries as satirist Christopher Buckley, essayist Christopher Hitchens and the late John McCain. Nate holds a BA from Harvard University and has completed finance coursework at NYU. In This Episode: The global gaming industry is expected to exceed $200B by 2023. Nate Gray's startup, Wingnut Digital, is a fast-growing player whose innovative and viral, "real-world" rewards-based business model has brought him exponential growth. Nate discusses his journey from storyteller to entrepreneur and the trends that are shaping the gaming industry – technological and experiential. He also discusses the "game-ification" of interfaces in other daily realms such as health, education and public safety.