Rovio’s CEO Steps Down After Just Over a Year

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Post by mauriziodaniele » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:31 PM UTC

Rovio’s CEO Steps Down After Just Over a Year
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Re: Rovio’s CEO Steps Down After Just Over a Year

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Post by GFischer » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:55 PM UTC

I still don't understand how the market overvalues all these "one-hit wonder" companies, like Rovio, Zynga, King, OMGPOP, etc., and how they grow to such massive amounts of employees (it's kind of a "curse of success").

Edit: the proper URL should be

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9878424/rovio-angry-birds-...

Re: Rovio’s CEO Steps Down After Just Over a Year

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Post by richardboegli » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:58 PM UTC

GFischer wrote: post #2

I still don't understand how the market overvalues all these "one-hit wonder" companies, like Rovio, Zynga, King, OMGPOP, etc., and how they grow to such massive amounts of employees (it's kind of a "curse of success"). Edit: the proper URL should be http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9878424/rovio-angry-birds-...

I did a post on this already

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10711645

Re: Rovio’s CEO Steps Down After Just Over a Year

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Post by GFischer » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 6:37 PM UTC

richardboegli wrote: post #3

GFischer wrote: post #2

I still don't understand how the market overvalues all these "one-hit wonder" companies, like Rovio, Zynga, King, OMGPOP, etc., and how they grow to such massive amounts of employees (it's kind of a "curse of success"). Edit: the proper URL should be http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9878424/rovio-angry-birds-...

I did a post on this already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10711645

Thanks :) I hadn't seen those.