Mitch Lasky
Mitchell Harold "Mitch" Lasky is a general partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark and a former entrepreneur and video game executive.
Education and early career
Lasky received a B.A. degree in History and Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.Early in his career, Lasky practiced law at the Los Angeles firm Irell & Manella, where he worked on various technology-related intellectual property cases. In 1993, he joined The Walt Disney Company. He left Disney in 1994 to launch a multiplayer online game company, Serum Entertainment Software.
Lasky subsequently spent five years at video game publisher Activision, including a stint as executive vice president of Worldwide Studios, helping to launch Quake 3, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Spider-Man.
In 2000, he joined mobile games company JAMDAT as CEO, and took the company public in 2004. Electronic Arts acquired JAMDAT for $680 million in 2006. Lasky served as executive vice president of mobile and online games at Electronic Arts from 2006 to 2007, after the JAMDAT acquisition.