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Jessica Rovello

Executive Chairwoman & Co-Founder, Arkadium · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jessica Rovello is the executive chairwoman and co-founder of casual game developer Arkadium, where she served as longtime CEO. Earlier in her career, she directed online services for Artisan Entertainment and led the digital marketing campaign for The Blair Witch Project.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jessica argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Rovello: Casual mobile games cost studios upwards of $1M to make
“Games, I mean, even casual games that people play on their mobile phones can cost upwards of a million dollars for a studio to make, if not more.”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 5:22 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

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Everything Jessica Rovello said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rovello: Arkadium bought out its VC investors for over $5M
“It was more than they put in.”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 14:55 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rovello: Raising Series A with significant cash enabled future buyout terms
“We were not in a place where we raised when we were at less than zero. We already had significant cash on the balance sheet when we raised, and that's how we were able to raise on terms that allowed us to eventually put us in a position to buy out our series A…”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 20:23 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rovello: Gamified data collection will become harder to monetize due to privacy
“That's something that we'll see what the lifespan of that type of gamified data collection is based on how privacy is trending in the United States and certainly abroad. It, That becomes a more and more difficult thing to be able to monetize.”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 10:33 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Assertion Supported
Rovello: Casual mobile games cost studios upwards of $1M to make
“Games, I mean, even casual games that people play on their mobile phones can cost upwards of a million dollars for a studio to make, if not more.”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 5:22 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Disclosure
Rovello: Arkadium historically maintained 10% to 20% EBITDA margins
“We've always done somewhere between, I would say, 10 and 20% EBITDA margins.”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 7:47 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rovello: Arkadium reached approximately $15M in revenue in 2018
“2018. We were in the fifteen million dollar, just around 15.”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 11:58 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rovello: Arkadium had no revenue for three years before hitting $600K
“I mean, we didn't have revenue for the first three years, I would say. Yeah, first two to three years, no revenue. And then when probably in the third or fourth year that we actually started making revenue, and then it scaled fairly quickly. Probably the first…”
Jessica Rovello Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 2:45 She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?! Dec 3, 2020 13m
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