Sergey Sholom

Founder & CEO, GNation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sergey Sholom holds a Ph.D. in mathematical modeling and founded the game development studio Datcroft Games. He later became CEO of GameCredits and led the 2017 MobileGo crowdsale, raising $53 million before launching the GNation impact initiative.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Sholom: GameCredits will acquire tens of millions of Indian users in 2017

“And then the marketing efforts that we will run because we're going to acquire Already this year, tens of millions of users in India.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 11:13 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Prediction Didn’t hold up

Sholom: GameCredits will acquire tens of millions of Indian users in 2017

“And then the marketing efforts that we will run because we're going to acquire Already this year, tens of millions of users in India.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 11:13 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Sholom: Game developers will direct user acquisition to GameCredits over Google Play

“Somewhere in Google Play, all he's trying to do the same, but trying to lead his user to game credit store, then he will simply measure trying to compare the difference in return on investment, and when we will prove him that more revenue happens in our store,…”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 9:26 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Insight

Sholom: App Store featuring matters less than spending millions on marketing

“It's at the end of the day, it's not that important if Apple featuring you or not, it's just additional bonus. Anyway, you have to run your marketing activities very heavily and Spend millions of dollars to get on the top of the charts.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 10:41 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Assertion Partly supported

Sholom: MobileGo raised $53M in May 2017 crowdsale

“It has happened this May and we've been raising fifty three million, which became number four result worldwide in crowd sales and number one result in crypto by that time. Right now, like we are in third place as far as I know.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 12:45 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Assertion Partly supported

Sholom: MobileGo had nearly 10,000 investors, more than any ICO

“We had almost 10,000 crypto investors. None, none other ICOs have that many. Usually it's like a couple of hundreds of big whales, and that's it. In our case, it's real crowdsale.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 15:08 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Disclosure

MobileGo operates non-profit, passing 100% of revenue to developers and gamers

“They are for profit companies. We are a non-profit company. We have only one goal to provide all 100% that are generated by the business to provide it to developers and to gamers. Yes? And a part of it even to charity. Yes? So, no profit we are going to get ou…”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 17:45 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Opinion

Sholom: Massive crypto hype overshadows lack of real-world blockchain use cases

“There is a really huge hype about everything that is connected to crypto and blockchain, but at the same time, we do not see many projects that is really using this technology.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 3:04 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Sholom: About 5% of web game players make in-game purchases

“Well, approximately five percent of players buying something inside of web games.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 4:42 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Disclosure

MobileGo commits $26.5M of ICO proceeds to marketing

“We've been promising that half of money, so 26.5 millions, we will put on marketing, and that's exactly to answer your question, where from we will get millions of users.”

Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 13:13 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised	Sep 2, 2017	11m

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