EGD 044: Game Entrepreneur's Journey with Teemu Mäki-Patola, COO & CMO of Frogmind
Today I’m talking with Teemu Mäki-Patola, who is the COO and CMO of Frogmind, a Helsinki based mobile games company. Teemu’s entrepreneurial career in gaming started at the same time as mine when he founded the Virtual Air Guitar Company in 2006.
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We talk about his experiences, a journey which took him to join Frogmind in the early days and to eventually getting a majority stake acquired by Supercell. I have much admiration for Teemu. In all the dire moments in his career, he never gave up.
Topics that we cover include:
- Let’s talk about Virtual Air Guitar Company. How did that get started and what were your biggest learnings there?
- How did you want to do things differently with Frogmind from Virtual Air Guitar?
- You must be really happy with Supercell? They are super nice people and understand games and game developers?
- If you hear of game devs, doing free-to-play and live service games for the first time, what is your advice to them?
- What have been your worst 24 hours in the games industry?