A French entrepreneur founded a startup at 25 that developed an app for League of Legends. He ran the startup without outside money or any employees. The app for LoL grew for 10 years and became increasingly popular. Now he achieved a spectacular sale.
What kind of app is this?
- The company is called “Wargraphs”, the app for LoL is called “Porofessor”. A corresponding website can be found at “League of Graphs.” There are also corresponding apps for the LoL offshoots Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra.
- The app helps LoL players track and improve their in-game statistics: You can check how popular certain champions are, which champion to use against them, which runes to use, and which jungle paths increase the chances of winning.
- LoL players love to improve their game. According to Techcrunch the app, along with the website, has 1.25 million daily users, and the company made 12.3 million € in revenue last year.
He has also achieved a lot in the last 10 years but has not developed an app:
Never taken outside money, never hired employees
The special thing is: Behind all the websites and apps is just one person, Jean-Nicolas Mastin.
He founded the company Wargraph at the age of 25 and has led it for 10 years without hiring employees or seeking outside money.
Who bought the company now? Wargraph was recently acquired for 50 million euros by a Swedish company, MOBA Network (via techcrunch).
The CEO says: Together with the founder, who joins the team, plans have already been made to further develop the project and to bring it to new games and markets.
With the acquisition of Mastin, they have now acquired a lot of expertise, which will help the company become the world’s best company in the gaming community sector.
The developer himself now wants to develop a game after 10 years of app development. Something in the direction of Hearthstone.
But he also wants to do that without outside money.
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