Marc Merrill
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 14, 2020 by Marc Merrill · across every show →
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Dec 14, 2020 positive
Dec 14, 2020
Riot scrapped $1 million in outsourced backend tech to restart from scratch
“We then had to call our board and tell them, Hey guys, you know, that back in technology we were building and the million dollars we spent on this, we're literally going to have to throw it all away and start over from scratch.”
Dec 14, 2020 negative
Merrill: Incumbent publishers said Riot's free-to-play model would never work
“And once we started talking to publishers, you know, whose entire incumbency and multi, you know, massive multi-dollar billion dollar businesses were built around selling shiny discs at retail, they Told us that this was a horrible idea, and it would never wor…”
Dec 14, 2020 neutral
Merrill: Building an online multiplayer game is like building a rocket ship
“The ability to build an online game is, is kind of like building a rocket ship where you have to build a game engine and a massive tool pipeline to put assets into the game. You know, you have to be able to build a whole set of server technologies that can sca…”
Dec 14, 2020 bullish
All growth since Riot's 2011 acquisition has been self-funded and profitable
“In a hundred percent of our growth since that 2011 transaction is organic, right? Like riots never taken on or capitalized the business at all. It's, you know, so like, it's been a sort of, since that period of time, a very profitable. You know, business, but …”
Dec 14, 2020
Merrill: Riot pitched gaming's shift from packaged goods to direct-to-consumer
“We tended to not focus much on the actual details of the game, but much more on the business opportunity and sort of the transition that we saw where the game industry would be, would evolve from a sort of packaged goods model to a direct to consumer model.”
Dec 14, 2020 neutral
Dec 14, 2020
Merrill: Scaling Crises and Governance Exhaustion Led Riot Founders to Step Down
“And like part of the reason Brandon and I stepped down was because we needed to also make it sustainable. Like we were exhausted from running this place for, you know, with so many crises, every step of the way. And when we're, as the company really grew and c…”
Dec 14, 2020 negative
Merrill: Riot erred by replacing crowdsourced moderation with top-down policing
“We made a mistake when we were investing in building out our player behavior team to try to nurture, you know, a really positive community, and promote sportsmanship, and train people how to be better online, where we moved from sort of a crowdsource self-poli…”