Henk Rogers | Celebrating 40 Years of Tetris | Talks at Google

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Chairman of the Board of The Tetris Company, Henk B. Rogers, joins us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tetris. The Tetris game has become one of the world’s top-selling video game brands with hundreds of millions of products sold, and that number is still growing today. In 1988, having published numerous computer games from around the world in the Japanese market, Henk discovered the Tetris game at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A year later, he licensed the Tetris Game Boy rights to Nintendo, where it would go on to make their handheld platform the most popular portable game system of its time. Learn more about Henk here: https://henkrogers.com/ Considered one of the visionaries of computer games, Henk Rogers helped change the face of the industry. Today Henk serves as Chairman of the Board of The Tetris Company, which is the exclusive licensor of the Tetris brand, Blue Planet Alliance, which aims to end the use of carbon based fuel, Blue Startups, one of Hawaii’s first venture accelerators, the International MoonBase Alliance, and Blue Planet Research, where he develops his dream projects. Moderated by Prem Ramaswami.