I am a firm believer that work is an extension of an individual. I dislike it when people are not passionate about their work. My motto is Get up, crack on which I have learnt to adapt to all that I do. In a career, as with everything else, if you dont fail sometimes it simply means that you are not trying hard enough, and often the lessons learnt on the way down are the most valuable ones. Following some pretty serious self-examination, it made me consider what I really wanted from life, and was my first step towards becoming an entrepreneur. Biggest career setback and what you learned from it:Įarly on in my career, I was made redundant, which at the time was a crushing experience. Green Man Gaming now sells a wide catalogue of over 4,000 games from more than 250 video game publishers, in five currencies across more than 190 countries worldwide, with 90 per cent of its revenue being generated outside the UK. What we hadnt anticipated was that within the first six hours of launching, over 400 games were sold to Japan. When entering the market in 2010, Green Man Gaming was focused on selling digital games across the UK and Northern Europe for the first 18 months. Globally the computer games industry is worth $66bn, and is set to rise to $84bn by 2015.

Current level of international business, and future aspirations: Together with the power and gameplay data of Playfire – our innovative social network for gamers – Green Man Gaming will become the definitive data-driven social commerce platform for video gamers. We are the only data-driven, e-commerce platform in the gaming industry that combines commercial, social, and actual game play data across multiple platforms to offer gamers the perfect game at the right price and time. Green Man Gaming is the worlds fastest growing social commerce platform for video gamers. In under 50 words, what makes your business distinctive in its marketplace: Employee numbers:ĥ5 Growth forecast for the next three years: Gross Revenue in 2013 is set to grow to over two times the revenue of 2012. Founder and CEO of Green Man Gaming Company turnover (and most recent ebitda/most relevant profitability metric):

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