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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.