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- ▶ 0:55 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two avid gamers fended off reluctant investors, naysaying experts, and their own self-doubt to build Riot Games, and one of the most successful video games ever created, League of Legends.
- ▶ 2:54 Guy Raz And it's why it was so hard for Mark and Brandon to get Riot Games up and running. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:47 Marc Merrill And so it was really that which led to the, the genesis of Riot.
- ▶ 26:50 Guy Raz So it's the mid-two thousands, and Brendan and Mark have set up an office in an old converted machine shop near the four or five freeway in Santa Monica, and they decided to call their brand new company Riot Games. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:04 Guy Raz And I guess in, in that first year, you had the lead developer for Riot Games, um, was somebody with a lot of experience, but had a really clear idea of what they wanted to do, which was, it doesn't sound like what you guys wanted to do,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:17 Guy Raz So, it's 2008, and Riot Games is trying to self-publish its first video game, which it's now calling League of Legends. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:21 Guy Raz I'm just curious, was there like, is there somebody at Riot Games at that point where you're like, hey, can you build a store in two weeks?
- ▶ 1:10:23 Guy Raz Like, how do, how does Riot Games make money from esports tournaments? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:16 Marc Merrill And I think that, you know, 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,…
- ▶ 1:16:11 Guy Raz Um, that year you hit like eighty five million dollars in revenue, and you sold Riot Games to Tencent, to the Chinese gaming company, an internet company, and I think they reportedly bought most of it for like four hundred million dollars,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:13 Guy Raz About three years ago, uh, you, you both stepped away from, uh, the day-to-day management of the company so you could focus on the thing that you really love to do, which is, which is to make games. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:47 Guy Raz About a year after, after you stepped down, an article came out in a gaming magazine that was pretty scathing, I'm sure you read it, that reported a bunch of incidents of sexism at Riot Games, um, and it alleged there was, like, a toxic… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:17 Guy Raz Like, have you seen those kinds of trends in your company? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:25 Guy Raz That's Brandon Beck and Mark Merrill, co-founders of Riot Games. 3 times in the scene