Cocks: D&D grew from a $10M to multi-hundred-million-dollar business
Chris Cocks · What Dungeons & Dragons can teach entrepreneurs (Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks) | Masters of Scale · Dec 20, 2024 · at 20:59
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks discusses the business trajectory and growth of Dungeons & Dragons following the release of its 5th Edition ruleset in 2014.
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“Before that it was like a ten million dollar business to now, you know, a multi-hundred million dollar business.”
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