Mind Candy
company on 3 shows · 3 statements across 1 episodes · said 10 times in 3 episodes since 2015
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My First Million 1
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Mind Candy buried a $200,000 treasure for game Perplex City
“So that's what Perplex City was, and to cut a very, very long story short, we buried a treasure worth 200,000 dollars somewhere in the world, and then we set about releasing clues across all sorts of different media.”
Acton Smith: Not selling Mind Candy to Disney was probably a mistake
“When you're an entrepreneur, you do need to think of all the stakeholders and investors and employees. Not selling was probably a mistake in hindsight.”
Michael Acton Smith: Mind Candy unraveled despite widespread public accolades
“I was on billboards and posters around East London. I was being interviewed on TV shows winning awards left, right, and center, but knowing in the pit of my stomach and at four a.m. That this was unraveling and this was falling apart.”