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Episode 1: Austin Walker (Waypoint)

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The Importance of Accepting Failure

Jeff Bakkel: I felt like we were not valued particularly well by the higher ups at CBS Interactive. The people at GameSpot loved us, we loved the people at Gamespot, you know, I had 100% co-value there,. But the higher ups of CBS Interactive at the time felt like they were invisible to me. And that was extremely stressful and sad because I could feel like, okay, this is it, I'm going to end up leaving this place that I love" He says he didn't have the language to say what he needed to stay a Giant Bomb long term. "If I could go back and tell something to myself, it would be to consider saying,

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