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20VC: 15 Term Sheets in 7 Days and Choosing Benchmark | Harvey vs Legora: Who Wins Legal and How to Play When You Have $600M Less Funding | Are AI Models Plateauing Today | Building a 9-9-6 Culture From Stockholm with Max Junestrand
- ▶ 1:08:17 Max Junestrand Klarna, Spotify, King, many others, but sometimes people underestimate how big this actually is, and you just need to be like, here are the numbers.
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:19 Klaus Hommels So, um, I, I got in at king.com at two and a half million and sold something at a hundred and I could have sold at five billion. 3 times in the scene
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Now we have many mutual friends, mostly also hailing from your start at King. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:12 Harry Stebbings What's the biggest difference between King and Revolut? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Antoine Le Nel So, for example, at King, what we cracked
- ▶ 16:45 Antoine Le Nel Yeah, but you see, for example, I mean, I've, so I've brought my playbook from King to Revolut, but I've significantly changed it.
- ▶ 19:31 Harry Stebbings Okay, so what did you change then from the King playbook? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:21 Antoine Le Nel yeah, I mean, that's the first thing that I brought from King, because at King we never talk about CAC, you know. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:05 Antoine Le Nel Out of sample of two, which is King and Revolut, the brand was much bigger before a single dollar of marketing was spent, right?
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:40 Danny Rimer Big successes, you know, King was an amazing lesson in the sense that King was a company where, uh, the market, um, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:33 Harry Stebbings Like King is an example there. 4 times in the scene
Stephane Kurgan: Lessons Scaling King from 100 Employees to 2,400; How to Find Great Talent | E1041 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings It's just like eight years at King is such an incredible time at such an incredible company.
- ▶ 5:41 Stephane Kurgan You know, it was, I mean, at King we had a number of rules. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Stephane Kurgan And provide a magical experience to the players and, and hence, you know, it, it was very important to be consistent ethically with, with these principles so that, you know, we could, we could drive employee engagement and people would be… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:53 Stephane Kurgan You know, when you run a digital organization, it, typically they're very data rich, and so we, we, we were, you know, designing and, and, uh, and distributing these very detailed, uh, reports with, you know, which, which would go pretty…
- ▶ 30:44 Stephane Kurgan At King, we try to be as, you know, again, with that data point, we try to be as transparent as we could.
- ▶ 36:55 Stephane Kurgan One of the things, uh, we, we had at King was we had, um,
- ▶ 40:10 Stephane Kurgan When you scale very fast, it, the, uh, it's very hard, it can be very hard, because the, you know, if you think about our company, we went from, you know, 100 employees to 2400 employees in three years, and so you have these cohorts. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:44 Stephane Kurgan Because, you know, we were a hugely caring company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:30 Stephane Kurgan I think the, the early mission statement at King was, you know, it was about bringing moments of magic, and I think that's exactly what we were doing.
- ▶ 49:57 Stephane Kurgan I mean, it's, it's obviously a very relevant question for King. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:41 Stephane Kurgan I had a very lucky timing when, when I, I joined King, uh, because I joined right before the launch of the first successful Facebook title.
- ▶ 1:01:06 Harry Stebbings A final one before we do a quick fire, but how did your time with King, how did that impact the type of founders that you like to work with, do you think? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:21 Stephane Kurgan You know, when I, I left King, I, I received, like, tens of emails of people I hardly knew, um, maybe some of them, I'm not sure I had met, and they were saying, you know, incredible things, and that's when you realize you've touched…
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:21 Akin Babayigit Um, and, uh, I, you know, he, he, uh, was the chief strategy officer at Activision, bought King, and I joined him at King, effectively. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:17 Akin Babayigit Then came Peak Games and introduced a, you know, a different game built on the idea of a game that actually King had, and everybody said, now it's done.
20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now, Danny is a partner at Index Ventures, one of the world's leading venture funds with a portfolio including the likes of Dropbox, Skype, King, Bird, Slack, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 24:16 Kevin Chou There's a wave of consolidation with Supercell and King and some of the other, you know, big mobile gaming companies being acquired. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 4:45 Christian Hernandez And now you look at Spotify and these are some of the largest music partners, King and Supercell, some of the largest gaming partners, the BBC, uh, literally streamed the whole Olympic games on Facebook.
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 23:10 Niccolo De Masi I mean, king.com, mobile-focused, standalone public companies, and King's now part of Activision, by the end of the month it will be anyway. 2 times in the scene
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 20:46 Martin Mignot Between, you know, if you think about, you know, Just Eat, Skype, Criteo, Zendesk, King, you know, all of the ones that are coming in the Spotify, Van Privé, Showroom Privé, the Zalendo.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 7:30 Hussein Kanji King.com did this on top of Facebook's API.
- ▶ 27:16 Harry Stebbings King acquisition. 3 times in the scene