Klaas Kersting's guest appearances

Klaas Kersting

Deconstructor of Fun

Elite Game Developers Podcast

Antti Hattara

Joe Schaeppi

Joakim Achren

Ken Go

Uri Marchand

Matej Lancaric

Kristian Segerstrale

Christian Ress

Anton Gauffin

Matthew Lewis

Tim Sweeney

Vince Zampella

Richard Kim

Susana Meza Graham

Selena Gomez

OwlTail

I'm talking with Klaas Kersting, who is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix Games, a new kind of European gaming conglomerate, with six games studios under its belt. In this discussion with Klaas, we talk about luck and taking advantage of lucky moments, how the mobile games industry has evolved, what characterizes teams that can go from broke to hugely profitable, and what well-done mergers and acquisitions look like in gaming.

I'm talking with Klaas Kersting, who is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix Games, a new kind of European gaming conglomerate, with six games studios under its belt. In this discussion with Klaas, we talk about luck and taking advantage of lucky moments, how the mobile games industry has evolved, what characterizes teams that can go from broke to hugely profitable, and what well-done mergers and acquisitions look like in gaming.

EGD 098: Klaas Kersting, Phoenix Games

Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.  In case you missed the previous episode:  Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO) Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili ---- Shout out to our awesome partners:  AppAnnie Play Ventures ironSource  GameRefinery  ---   Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deconstructoroffun/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deconstructoroffun/support

Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.  In case you missed the previous episode: <a href="https://www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/2019/8/5/deconstructing-scopelys-400m-run-rate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO)</a> <a href="https://anchor.fm/deconstructoroffun/episodes/Mobile-Publishing-2-Behind-Tilting-Points-132M-War-Chest-with-President-Samir-El-Agili-e4uevb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili</a> ---- Shout out to our awesome partners:  <a href="https://www.appannie.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AppAnnie</a> <a href="http://www.playventures.vc/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Play Ventures</a> <a href="http://www.ironsrc.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ironSource</a> <a href="https://www.gamerefinery.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GameRefinery</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deconstructoroffun/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deconstructoroffun/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deconstructoroffun/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deconstructoroffun/support</a>

#12 Former Publishing CEO Spills the Beans with Klaas Kersting