Teddy Cross

Teddy Cross is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Playco, the instant-play gaming company that launched with a $100 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation.An HTML5 gaming pioneer, Teddy began working in Silicon Valley at age 15, developing browser-based games at the emergence of the modern mobile web. He has since spent his career building products at the intersection of gaming and new computing platforms.At Playco, Teddy has led the company’s early adoption of generative AI across every stage of game development, collaborating with frontier labs to rethink how interactive experiences are designed, built, and operated. His current focus is on the tools and infrastructure needed to make AI genuinely useful to game creators, and on how AI will reshape the future of play.He builds across Seoul, Tokyo, and Silicon Valley.