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Pt.1: How $11k Wrapped in Bacon Helped Build a Mobile Gaming Hit-Factory
Many companies use perks like free onsite food, massages, and elaborate off-sites to attract and retain game-changing talent.
If you’re Scopely, you take a different tack.
Namely? Bricks of cash. Wrapped in bacon.
Scopely is the LA-based mobile gaming studio that has produced six #1 games in a row, including The Walking Dead Road to Survival, Yahtzee with Friends, and Disco Bees.
According to today’s Awesome Office guest Jason Weiss, that success started with creating a culture that could attract and retain the top talent.
And he should know: as the company’s SVP of talent for more than four years, he was a main driver behind the company’s vibrant and playful ethos.
The results speak for themselves. During his tenure at the company, Weiss helped expand the organization from 10 to more than 125 employees, and helped grow revenue from zero to a run rate of more than $70 million a year.
While Jason was there, Scopely also launched one of the most notorious recruiting campaigns in recent memory - a search to find “the most interesting engineers in the world” that enticed top talent with oil portraits, a year’s supply of beer, a tuxedo, a spear gun, and yes, $11,000 in cold hard cash wrapped in cured meat.
We talked about all this and more in this week's epic two-part interview.
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By Sean SpearMany companies use perks like free onsite food, massages, and elaborate off-sites to attract and retain game-changing talent.
If you’re Scopely, you take a different tack.
Namely? Bricks of cash. Wrapped in bacon.
Scopely is the LA-based mobile gaming studio that has produced six #1 games in a row, including The Walking Dead Road to Survival, Yahtzee with Friends, and Disco Bees.
According to today’s Awesome Office guest Jason Weiss, that success started with creating a culture that could attract and retain the top talent.
And he should know: as the company’s SVP of talent for more than four years, he was a main driver behind the company’s vibrant and playful ethos.
The results speak for themselves. During his tenure at the company, Weiss helped expand the organization from 10 to more than 125 employees, and helped grow revenue from zero to a run rate of more than $70 million a year.
While Jason was there, Scopely also launched one of the most notorious recruiting campaigns in recent memory - a search to find “the most interesting engineers in the world” that enticed top talent with oil portraits, a year’s supply of beer, a tuxedo, a spear gun, and yes, $11,000 in cold hard cash wrapped in cured meat.
We talked about all this and more in this week's epic two-part interview.
Key Takeaways
Links
Recommended Reading
Like this episode? Then let us know! Subscribe, rate, and review the show in iTunes. This show grows by word of mouth, and the more we grow, the more Awesome we can all create together.