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Angry Birds and Rovio
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- 0:00They made 51 games, nobody remembers.
- 0:02The 52nd was Angry Birds.
- 0:05Finland, 2003. Three students win a
- 0:07mobile game contest and start a company
- 0:09called Rovio. For six years, they ship
- 0:12game after game. Bounce Evolution, Paid
- 0:14to Kill. Almost all of them sink without
- 0:16a trace. [music] By 2009, Rovio is close
- 0:19to bankruptcy, down to 12 employees. So,
- 0:22they try one more idea.
- 0:23>> [music]
- 0:23>> Bird, a slingshot, green pigs hiding in
- 0:26towers. They build it in eight months.
- 0:29Angry Birds finds the number one spot in
- 0:31the app store. The game has passed a
- 0:32billion downloads. Then come plush toys,
- 0:35cartoons, [music] theme parks, and two
- 0:37Hollywood movies. In 2023, Sega buys
- 0:40Rovio for 706 million euros. 51
- 0:44failures, one win.
- 0:45That was the whole difference.
- 0:47Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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