Yes he was a visiting professor for like a semester or two.

He was also working for Valve for a while.

Yes that’s why he and Gabe were speakers at the talk. In game economies were the topic.

And CCP (EVE Online)

Yanis basically created steam market and the dota/cs economy

No he didn’t.

TF2 economy existed long before him and he sure as hell wasn’t “basically created dota/cs economy”.

nitpick but Yanis Varoufakis was born in 1961 and TF2 was released in 2007 so he definitely existed first.

I do agree that he didn't create the dota/cs economy

He started to work at Valve in March 2012 and steam market was released 9 months later.

He created the dota 2 economy and the cs team copied the Dota 2 economy.

His recent stuff is pretty relevant to tech. Eg https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/category/books/technofeudalis...