Guido Teuber: Counterfeits Reached 20% to 25% of Catan Copies Around 2017
Guido Teuber · Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders | Masters of Scale · Jul 18, 2025 · at 16:18
Guido Teuber, Co-CEO of Catan GmbH, discusses the operational threat posed by counterfeit board games entering the Amazon marketplace.
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“And it turned out that piracy was the culprit, and there were massive it was a wave of piracy originating mostly from China, and then just coming container loads, and then at some point, every fourth or fifth game was actually a pirated copy from China, and so that was And so it took us two years to sort it out”
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