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Grand Games, the Turkish startup behind Magic Sort, drinks up $30M
Gaming startups — specifically those building casual mobile games — are very hot in Turkey right now, and today another one is announcing a sizeable round
In the current charts for most popular casual and puzzle games on Apple’s App Store, only a handful of the developers are venture-backed. Those founders might be very smart and ambitious but it left a lot on the table, giving “really capable, high caliber people” — their employees — very little license in what they are working on, he said. Grand’s three founders’ bet was that if they could build a structure where they hired smart people to take on most of the decision making in clusters around single titles, that would result in more productive work, better games, and ultimately happier employees.
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