Two founders of major tech companies agreed: Warcraft, Civilization, and X-Com are not just nostalgia, but business education.
On April 19, 2026, Telegram founder Pavel Durov supported a post by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the social network X, in which he compared strategic games of youth to entrepreneurship. Armstrong admitted that in his youth he was seriously passionate about StarCraft and Civilization, and over time he realized that business satisfies the same needs — resource allocation, construction, expansion of influence — but, unlike the game, it brings real benefits. Durov replied that he himself had played through almost all the iconic strategies of that era and over time applied the lessons learned in practice.
Durov: 90s strategies laid the foundation of business thinking — a list of 11 games and StarCraft tournaments
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Two founders of major tech companies agreed: Warcraft, Civilization, and X-Com are not just nostalgia, but business education.