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Akin Babayigit

Founder & Managing Director, Arcadia Gaming Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Akin Babayigit co-founded mobile gaming company Tripledot Studios and playable ads platform Luna Labs. Following his tenure in daily operations at Tripledot, he launched Arcadia Gaming Advisors to invest in emerging mobile game studios.

46statements → 8claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 4.02/5average certainty → 2.52/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 8said about them ↓

2 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 3 not yet assessed 1 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 7 assertions · 10 opinions · 23 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 3 are not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Akin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Babayigit: Farmville sold more virtual tractors daily than real-world global sales
“I read a statistic somewhere that there was more tractors being sold in a day on Farmville than anywhere else in the world combined.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 9:45 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Babayigit: Japan's Pachinko industry generates more revenue than the Japanese auto industry
“The average revenue per year From pachinko is larger than the Japanese auto industry, which is several hundred billion dollars a year, right?”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:22:14 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
50% certainty 4
50% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.2 / 5 directness 4.6 · coherence 4.4 · precision 3.9 · compression 3.5

redirected or did not address 1 of 43 assessed questions (2%). Watch them ▸

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

244 words/min while actually speaking · 15.4 um and uh per 1k words · 10.6 false starts per 1k · 36.8% of pauses land inside a clause

English is their second language (first language: Turkish). These numbers measure fluency in English. They do not measure thought; the argument clarity score above is read from substance alone.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 16,881 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 4/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 4/10
setup questions received 60%

Everything Akin Babayigit said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Babayigit: Requiring domain passion is a dangerous Western startup myth
“I think it's a very Western centric view of the world To think that you have to be, you know, passionate about the domain that you're in. And I think that ends up actually in quite dangerous territory because a lot of people who are passionate for winning, who…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 23:24 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: VCs cannot add operational value to truly exceptional founders
“Because I don't think a VC can truly add operational value to a truly exceptional founder.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:42:37 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: True innovation comes from iteration rather than novel problems
“True innovation happens through iteration, right? You start working on something and you iterate, you do this thing one percent different, this thing one percent different, and then the aggregate impact ends up being something completely innovative.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 27:48 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Babayigit worked only two hours a day late in his Facebook career
“When I was working two hours a day towards the tail end of my career at Facebook. By all measures, it was supposed to be super comfortable and, you know, whatever. I was cruising, right? I was Barely doing any work at all.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 35:56 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Babayigit: Tripledot lost months of productivity to silly GDPR regulations
“We've lost months of productivity over something silly called GDPR and et cetera, right?”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:14:18 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Mobile game success comes from live operations, not creative design
“And if you look at the business as a whole, the success of a mobile game has nothing to do with how you make the game. It's all about how you operate the game. And how you operate the game is not, you know, I think a lot of times people think about gaming and …”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:18:10 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Babayigit: AI startups do not require proprietary data to build valuable businesses
“So you know, but I don't subscribe to a lot of the criticism about the business model because it will change. You know, you don't have to have necessarily proprietary data to create a valuable business. You can offer tools. You can offer services that really c…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:31:31 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Most people who enter management consulting lack career direction
“Just like what most people don't, you know, most people that do consulting don't know what they want to do with their life.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 2:58 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Babayigit: McKinsey is an intellectually rigid, formulaic environment
“It was a very rigid environment intellectually. There was a way to do things, and if you didn't do things that way, you would fail, right?”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 3:21 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Babayigit: Harvard Business School's value comes from peers, not academics
“HBS is around 900 kids every year, and it was transformative for me, not because of the things I've learned, because I didn't learn much, but I did learn by talking to people what they are, you know, what they do, who they are, what gets them motivated”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 5:35 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Babayigit: 35% of early Facebook mobile revenue came from three Russian developers
“There was a period of time when I think 30 Five percent of Facebook's mobile revenue was coming from like three developers in Russia at the time”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 15:59 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Babayigit: Facebook became overly bureaucratic and designed products by committee
“I left Facebook because I was frustrated how big it was and how bureaucratic everything was Getting, and, you know, there's a saying called, you know, a camel is, is a horse designed by a committee, and Facebook was designing, you know, camels all the time”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 17:49 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Babayigit: The founder of $1.4B gaming company Tripledot is not a gamer
“Triple Dot is a company that's doing quite well. But I'm not a gamer by definition. Now, it depends on what you mean by gamer, but any kind of definition you have. You know, I am not a hardcore gamer.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 21:51 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Startup Mission Statements Are Mostly Disingenuous
“I mean, money doesn't buy you happiness, but it can eliminate some forms of unhappiness, right? And a lot of people fetishize this kind of, you know, grandiose meanings in life, and, you know, what it means to have a mission statement, and you put it on the wa…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 25:12 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Startups must slow down at critical strategic curves
“Speed of execution allows you to do more iterations than others. Right. But there are points that this is a road, and the road has curves, and you know what? When you're approaching those curves, sometimes you have to just slow down and actually think and take…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 29:13 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Successful founders always respond to messages right away
“The people that have, that will succeed, if you kind of look back, they'll have grit, they'll have perseverance. They're the ones That actually respond to you right away.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 34:39 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: True work-life balance means doing work you continuously think about
“Work-life balance is not true in the standard sense of, you know, you work, you finish your home, so you work, you finish your work, you go home, and then you chill. That's not work-life balance, right? If you're, you know, lucky enough to be doing something t…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 37:38 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Entrepreneurship gets easier over time like raising children
“I think it does get easier, right? Because it's, I think it changed the nature of the problems change. It's like when people ask me about kids, you know, when you have a small kid, you worry about something relatively minuscule every single day, maybe every si…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 40:38 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Tripledot mirrored its cap table to Luna Labs for existing investors
“So in our case, again, this goes back to, you know, we are always doing the right thing. I always try to do the right thing. What we did was precisely because of that, we said all people who invested in triple dot basically will mirror the cap table to Luna. S…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 46:17 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Early startups need room to diversify and pivot beyond one product
“So that judgment, it all comes down to basically judgment, right? That judgment of what are you focusing on? Are you focusing on the right thing? Or you need to have some breathing room To allow yourself to pivot. If the thing, you know, you talked about diver…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 47:45 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Babayigit: Early-stage startups should ignore PR and brand building
“You have to focus on execution because in the early days, you know, nothing else matters. PR doesn't matter. Brand doesn't matter. You know, It just doesn't matter. You have to be focused on execution.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 49:38 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Technical Skills Can Be Taught in Months, Intrinsic Hunger Cannot
“You can teach marketing to anyone. You can teach pretty much anything you do. Even what we discussed, three, the art, you can teach it to a person. You cannot teach the hunger, and this is very true.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 58:21 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Hiring senior startup talent based on pedigree often fails
“If I look in the past, it has been those cases where we've hired for etiquette. So you hire someone who's worked at gaming company X and you say, oh, wow, they're, you know, super senior. They've done this. They even, you know, check out in terms when you do d…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:02:50 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Babayigit: Startup Valuations Reflect Market FOMO Rather Than Cash Flows
“Valuation to me can only be useful if it's a meaningful heuristic For future potential cash flows, right? But valuations now are a measure of what that markets FOMO is for that business.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:04:26 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Show 22statements(22 left)

The other half of the tape: Akin Babayigit's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 4 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 7Danny Cohen 1

Every mention by year

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 Jun 26, 2023 1h 27m
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