Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.