CEO Matt Bromberg on ending Unity’s ‘war’ against its customers

Today, I’m talking with Matt Bromberg, who is the CEO of Unity, one of the leading video game development platforms. He’s been in the job for less than a year, and in many ways, he is the perfect Decoder guest. Unity is one of those companies that we love here on Decoder because we interact with its products all the time, but the company itself is somewhat hidden from view. Unity doesn’t make or publish its own games. Instead, its core product, the Unity game engine, is what all kinds of games — especially mobile ones — run on. If you play games on your phone, which you probably do, you’ve used a product built with Unity. It’s not just on phones by a long shot, and you’ll hear us talk about that quite a bit, too, but Unity as a company is what makes a core part of the mobile phone experience work. Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! That’s a Decoder all by itself, but Bromberg took over the job of CEO in a ... Read full article.