Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop role-playing game, turns 50 this year. As a lifelong lover of the game, host Reid Hoffman asked fellow D&D player and Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks to join him for a conversation about the entrepreneurial lessons they each learned from the game, how Hasbro is scaling the legacy brand to new heights, and the ways technology is unlocking new levels of creative and business opportunities.
Chapters:
00:00 Introducing Dungeons & Dragons
02:56 The origins and evolution of Dungeons & Dragons
05:56 How D&D provided Chris Cocks with a foundation to complex systems
11:03 Leadership & teamwork lessons from D&D
15:14 Integrating AI into the D&D experience
18:47 Scaling Dungeons & Dragons through digital innovations
25:15 Enabling user-generated content for a richer D&D universe
29:20 Expanding D&D’s reach in the global gaming market
31:37 Lightning Round
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