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Senior Vice President Product & Technology of Grow, Unity Software

Search every verified Felix The interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Felix Herbst, Senior Vice President Product & Technology of Grow at Unity Software, has spoken publicly about Unity's package management system. In a September 2023 talk, he discussed the evolution of Unity packages, describing how his team at Needle moved from confusion about the system to building entire projects around it. He noted that his company operates its own package registries, with about 23 packages on the Needle registry and 40 on the Prefrontal Cortex registry, compared to over 250 public packages on Unity's registry. Herbst also described a project called Mirror that monitors Unity's package registry metadata to mirror new versions to GitHub for easier comparison and tracking of changes. In a 2018 interview, Herbst discussed his experience developing the game "Awesome Zombie Sniper" for the Windows 8 Store. He stated that his total investment in building the game was below $400, with a return of about $2,000 per month from advertising banners. He expressed the opinion that games should be made available for free and monetized through non-intrusive advertising. Herbst also noted that Microsoft was paying for Unity's license for Windows Phone and Windows Store platforms at that time, making it free for developers targeting those platforms.