Thomas: Guru Games pivots to mobile and social casinos over hardware
Evan Thomas · #6 Guru Games · Mar 3, 2025 · at 28:53
Evan Thomas, co-founder of Guru Games, explains the startup's strategic shift toward free-to-play mobile games after pitching venture capitalists on The Pitch.
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“We're working with a social casino company to get basically free-to-play versions of our games up on casinos, say, on, like, your phone or, like, on Facebook. So, like, that, it's really that online side that we really found a better for us, a better match for us Because that's where our expertise lied and allowed us to ignore the hardware.”
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