Harari: Spin Master reinvested all past profits into Air Hogs development
Ronnen Harary · Spin Master/PAW Patrol: Ronnen Harary · Dec 20, 2021 · at 27:24
Ronnen Harari is the co-founder of Spin Master. He is discussing the financial risk the startup took to develop their breakthrough toy plane, Air Hogs, in the late 1990s.
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“When we signed the product, we basically put all the money we'd made to date into the design and development.”
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