Supercell
11 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2017 by Luis von Ahn · said 56 times in 17 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (31), Miki Kuusi (7), Ilkka Paananen (5), Eric Liaw (4), Sonali De Rycker (2), Rich Wong (1), Luis von Ahn (1), Kevin Chou (1)
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2022 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 32 mentions in 3 episodes 11 per episode
- 20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- 20VC: Spotify Founder Daniel Ek on Optimising Decision-Making, Structuring Effective Learning Processes, The Trials and Tribulations in The Transition From Founder To CEO & The Future of Building Prima Materia with Shakil Khan
- 20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- 20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- 20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- 20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- 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
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- 20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- 20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
Everything said about Supercell, oldest first
Oct 13, 2017 bullish
Von Ahn: Supercell achieves an impressive 20% Day 365 user retention
“We look a lot at companies like Supercell, who I admire a lot. They're making these amazing games where their D three 65 retention, like one year later, you know, they're looking at things like 20% on the three 65th day people are there.”
Dec 4, 2017 negative
Feb 1, 2021
Paananen: An absence of failure signals a lack of ambition and innovation
“If a company, like, never, ever fails, essentially means that they probably aren't trying to do a kind of hard enough thing, or the bar just isn't, like, high enough, and that they're not trying to, like, you know, innovate.”
Feb 1, 2021
Feb 1, 2021 neutral
Paananen: Supercell's first three games failed completely
“Outside looking in, like, it might feel that Supercell was an instant success, but I guarantee you that in the first two years, it definitely didn't feel like that, because, I mean, as you said, like, the first three games that he put out didn't work at all.”
Feb 1, 2021
Paananen: Supercell maintains a tradition of celebrating learnings from failed projects
“And then that actually became a tradition in the company, which we sort of still have. So whenever we kind of like fail, we actually do celebrate, like not be failure itself because failing isn't cool or fun. Everybody knows it sucks, but, and we are not celeb…”
Feb 1, 2021
Ilkka Paananen raised over $143M for Supercell prior to Tencent acquisition
“Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and Lifeline to name a fe…”
Feb 1, 2021 positive
Paananen: Giving employees total trust automatically drives individual accountability
“And, you know, I've also noticed that the more kind of you trust people, I mean, people also, like, the way they can respond is that they get this huge sense of responsibility. Like, most people get it sort of almost automatically if they are just, if they get…”
Feb 1, 2021 negative
Paananen: Focusing on competitors prevents a company from ever leading
“If you follow competition, the risk is that you may become, like, overly reactive, like, what Happens around you, and essentially, the best you can be is just to be a fast follower, but if you're a fast follower, then by definition, you will always follow some…”
Feb 1, 2021 positive