Jonas Gundersen

Esports Investor & Entrepreneur | One IPO, Multiple Investments | Founder at Continuum X Group

Former Group COO of NIP Group, recently listed on Nasdaq ($NIPG), 15+ years of startups and executive leadership, former professional esports athlete.

Chief Operating Officer

Ninjas in Pyjamas: An iconic esports team with over 20 years of legacy and championship wins, fielding teams around the globe, across various major game titles

At Ninjas in Pyjamas, I am in charge of all daily operations, with an extended focus on commercialization and esports.

Best way to convince people that esports is very real? Go to an event. Check out the stage view from ESL Krakow:


Yes, esports lives digitally in a way that no other sport is even close to, but the foundation is still the same as the rest. Humans coming together, sharing special moments of common interest, watching the best of the best push the limits of what's possible. Entertainment in its purest form.

I love this video from ESL, showcasing the view from the players on stage, where 15.000 people eagerly await the final of Team Vitality & FURIA. What a view.

Over the years, the best way to get people to understand the movement that is happening is to just bring them to an event to experience it all. Those first roars from the crowd of the stage entries and the first few exciting rounds or fights in a game are as self-explanatory as it gets. Every time, people go like "What?! This is amazing!" And I can only agree - yes, it is!


Let's go esports! 🎮 🚀 

#esports #gaming #audience

Founder of Fusion Esports Group, Astralis Owners | ex-COO of NIP Group, Listed on NASDAQ ($NIPG)

COO at Metafy l VP at Dreamcraft Ventures l Advisor l Operator l Founder of GamerzClass

I believe founders deserve a partner who values their legacy as much as their product. Too often, great gaming platforms plateau, not because they lack vision, but because scaling requires a different kind of playbook. 

Over the past decade, I’ve founded, operated, and grown businesses across gaming, creator tech, and community platforms. My work has always centered on the same principles: build useful products, protect what matters, and scale in a way that lasts.

Founded GamerzClass, a learning platform for competitive gamers focused on high-quality content and creator-first experiences.

Joined Metafy as COO post-acquisition, where I helped evolve the product, team, and operations to support a growing global user base.

Partnered with the Futbin team during their transition into a larger group, focusing on post-transaction strategy and long-term platform health.

Rebuilt Renderz.app into a utility platform that helps players get more out of the games they love, with a focus on simplicity, speed, and community trust.

Acquired Nexus Mods, a cornerstone of modding in gaming, and now guiding its next chapter with Chosen, where we help founder-led platforms break through the next stage of growth, without compromising what made them special.

Now building Chosen, where we help founder-led platforms break through the next stage of growth, without compromising what made them special.

If you’re building something meaningful in gaming or community and want a partner who’s walked the path, I’d love to connect.

www.wearechosen.io

Victor Folmann

We continue to break new records at Nexus Mods. Month after month.

More users. More creators. More engagement.
Strong tailwinds across the industry. The flywheel is spinning.

But honestly, this is what excites me most.
A handwritten letter from a creator in our community.

He named his initiative “Project Turkish Delight”

Expanded the scope on his own.
Thanked us for the opportunity.
Promised not to let us down.

You can’t model that in a spreadsheet. You can’t force that with capital.

That’s belief.

When creators feel trusted, they go beyond the brief. They care more. They build bigger.

Yes, we’re breaking records.

But what we’re really building is belief.

And that’s when things get interesting.

We’re just getting started.

I buy, build and grow gaming networks @ Chosen

Spotify didn't make music. They made it frictionless.

GitHub didn't write code. They made building together possible.

Every generation has a moment where a fragmented creative ecosystem gets its infrastructure layer, and everything changes.

Gaming is next.

Millions of people mod, create, and build around games. They do it across thousands of disconnected platforms, communities, and tools.

Nobody has built the layer that connects it all. That's what we're doing at Chosen and Nexus Mods, effectively building the rails. 

Heading to GDC Festival of Gaming in a few weeks, if this is a conversation you want to have, find me.

Our team will be in Vegas this weekend with some of the creators from our Fallout Modathon, easily one of the biggest community events we’ve run at Nexus Mods.

Modding communities have a way of showing what happens when you give people space to build. 

The Modathon is really just us leaning into that and putting the spotlight on the people who keep these games alive.

We’ve got badges, merch, game keys, the usual stuff. 

But we also wanted to do something that actually feels memorable.

So a few of the Community Recognition winners are spending three days in Las Vegas with the Nexus Mods team. Flights, hotel, the whole thing. Mostly just time to hang out, get to know each other, and celebrate the people behind so much of what makes these communities work.

It’s a small way of saying thanks to the people who keep showing up and pushing these worlds forward long after release.

Looking forward to seeing it all come together this weekend.

I still think modding is one of the most underestimated parts of the gaming ecosystem. 

It gets talked about like a bonus layer, but in reality, it’s often what keeps games relevant. 

Over time that shows up in how long games stay relevant and in ideas that probably wouldn’t have come out of a studio alone.

When you see it up close, it starts to look less like a feature and more like infrastructure. 

The community becomes part of how the game evolves, not just how it’s consumed. 

Once you recognize that, the job changes. 

You spend more time navigating trade-offs: how to support growth without eroding the dynamics that made the community work in the first place, how to introduce structure without flattening creativity.

The industry naturally spends a lot of time talking about launches and visuals, but when you look at which games stick around for years, communities that keep building on top of the experience are almost always part of the story. 

Modding has been proving that for decades.

The other night, my wife and I celebrated our anniversary a little differently.

We went to Cyberphoria. Symphony Beyond Time.

A full concert hall. Lights down. Anticipation building.

And then… a Robot walks on stage.

Not there for laughs.
Not there to make a point.
Just part of the performance.

And everyone just… accepted it?

There was no outrage. No one whispering “this is weird.”

Just curiosity at first. Some phones went up. Then people started clapping.

...and then it hit me.

The biggest shift in leisure time is happening right now.

AI won’t just change work, but it’s about to completely reshape entertainment.

I'm talking concerts. Games. Films. Live experiences.

It’s getting harder to tell where human creativity ends and the tools begin.

And honestly?

It’s actually exciting.

We are entering an era where intelligence itself becomes part of the stage.

Where code performs.

Where algorithms co-create.

Where even robots get standing ovations.

If this is where leisure is going… imagine what happens to gaming, modding, and user-generated worlds.

The future won’t be consumed.

It will be co-created.

And apparently… it might walk on stage wearing metal.

These are wild, wild times.

Humans weren't meant to spend 8 hours a day in spreadsheets. We were meant to play, create, and build worlds together.

The next great economic shift isn't unemployment. It's the largest expansion of leisure time in human history.

Entertainment won't be a pastime. It'll be the economy.

My bet is gaming. Specifically, user-created worlds.

But I'm curious, where do you think the time goes?

A lot is happening right now around modding, creator tools, and user-generated worlds.

New platforms. Could be new tools. Maybe even new experiments in how players become creators. But most of these signals are scattered.

So I’m starting something simple.

The UGC Landscape, a weekly roundup of the most important developments across modding, creator tools, and user-generated content.

First issue goes out next Monday.

If you care about where creator-driven gaming is heading, subscribe.

By Victor Folmann, I buy, build and grow gaming networks @ Chosen

A weekly roundup of the most important developments across modding, creator tools, and user-generated worlds.

Join Stevie Elsworth and our great design team at Nexus Mods.

We’re looking for someone who wants to help shape the future of modding, not just polish interfaces, but define how millions of players discover, install, and experience UGC across every game.

This is a great opportunity to work at the intersection of product, community, and infrastructure. You’ll collaborate closely with Stevie and a fast-moving team, designing systems that make modding effortless, predictable, and universal.

We’re hiring a Senior Product Designer at Nexus Mods — come and join my team!

We’re launching a freshly minted Growth Squad, and we’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help us bring modding to an even wider audience.

If you’re into gaming and have experience with UGC, this is a fascinating space to work in. Our community is deeply engaged (and yes, they will mod Thomas the Tank Engine into literally anything).

To give you a sense of scale, in January alone:

📦 830 million mods downloaded
⚡ 35 million downloads in a single day (19m daily average)
💾 54.03 petabytes of data delivered in 30 days — that’s like filling a 1TB hard drive every 45 seconds
👥 71 million users
🤯 Cloudflare told us we were their biggest UK customer during that period

Any work we ship has an immediate, measurable impact. This is a genuinely data-driven product environment, operating at serious scale.

If you care deeply about craft, love solving growth challenges, and want to design for one of the most passionate communities on the internet, I’d love to hear from you.

Drop me a DM or apply through the official channel  👉 https://lnkd.in/e9Nyz_NC

Oh — and we work a 4-day week 😎 .

Gaming is quietly becoming one of the most regulated and creator-driven industries at the same time.

So I started The UGC Landscape: a weekly roundup of the signals shaping creator-driven gaming.

First roundup just went live. These are a few developments from the past week that caught my attention.

See below. 

#UGC #Gaming #Modding #GameDev #NexusMods

Last week had a few interesting signals across regulation, AI, platforms, and modding. Here are the ones that caught my attention. Regulation is comin

Open article: The UGC Landscape Weekly Roundup: Regulation Is Coming, AI Debates, and Modding Goes Mainstream by Victor Folmann • 2 min read

The UGC Landscape Weekly Roundup: Regulation Is Coming, AI Debates, and Modding Goes Mainstream

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