Why this gaming tech startup founder moved from LA to Troy

Glenn Fiedler first flew from Los Angeles to Troy for business in mid-2019. Later that year, he got a one-way ticket, and Troy became the new base for his gaming tech startup, Network Next. He had been visiting to do some work with Velan Studios on its game Knockout City, when Velan founders Guha Bala and Karthik Bala clued him into the cluster of game studios in the Capital Region. “Guha and Karthik enticed me purely on the merits of the region to move here. They personally convinced me to…