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Stebbings predicts Tripledot Studios will reach $10 billion valuation within five years
“I think triple dot could be a ten billion dollar company in the next five years.”
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?”
Babayigit: UK and US Candidates Wanting Cash Over Equity Signal Misalignment
“It's a bit cultural dependent because, you know, there are parts of Europe where that's just not a thing. Like people just, people think you're trying to pull a fast one on them. If you say, I'm going to give you equity. And so it is, you know, case by case. B…”
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…”
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.”
Babayigit: AI reduced Tripledot's 3D character modeling time from days to minutes
“Yes. So we have, we use AI driven tools that You know, enable us to, you know, increase our productivity dramatically. So we use tools that, you know, in the old days, it might have taken us X days to build a three D model of character to be used in a game. An…”
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.”
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…”
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…”
Babayigit: Eastern European Startup Candidates Often Reject Equity for Cash
“What I can tell you that, you know, we have operations in Eastern Europe, and I have had a lot of conversations when, you know, we may want to give someone equity, and they're like, you know, no.”
Babayigit: Mobile gaming studios can win in evergreen categories like Solitaire
“The thesis was, you know, gaming will always be, I mean, I'm simplifying to make a point, but you know, there will always be a market for solitaire. And I felt that I could, and we could out execute some of the other companies that were making solitaire games.”
Babayigit: Tripledot hires for bias for action and asking forgiveness over permission
“One of the things that we say is we want to hire people who ask for forgiveness, not permission, and that is something that is probably the single best embodiment of the triple dot recruiting culture is we want people who will do things, who will take initiati…”