This isn't your typical "we raised $50M and exited" story. This is what happens when you have no choice but to figure it out yourselves. When the tripod refuses to fall. When you run out of everything except ideas. This is the story of Heroic Labs.
About Heroic Labs: Core infrastructure for game studios. If you've played games from Zynga, Gram Games, or dozens of other studios, you've used their tech without knowing it. That's by design.
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"The road you're in is a graveyard, full of skulls of previous dead companies." - Bing Gordon, Kleiner Perkins
Timestamps:
00:00 Heroic Safari Adventures
01:24 Switching to Open Source
04:14 Journey to Y Combinator
09:44 Life at Y Combinator
26:01 Demo Day and Investor Meetings
33:03 Heroic Bootstrapping
37:40 Remote Work and Team Dynamics
43:01Â Founder Dynamics
50:19Â Advice for Founders
01:03:55 Team Pride & Retention
01:13:04 Rapid Fire Questions