Slavin: Early growth focus would have forced Area Code into an all-in Pokémon bet
Kevin Slavin · There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator · Dec 6, 2017 · at 14:03
Kevin Slavin reflects on how avoiding early VC-style growth targets allowed Area Code to experiment rather than overcommitting to a single 2004 pitch to Nintendo.
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“And if we'd had to think about growth from the very beginning, man, we would never have done Anything we did, you know, we would, you know, we would have bet it all on, on this idea that we had in 2004 that we went and talked to the Nintendo corporation. We had this idea for Pokemon. We probably would have bet it all on that.”
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