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Company Profile
Pocket Gems
Website
www.pocketgems.com
About
Pocket Gems develops free-to-play mobile games that are ridiculously fun. It was founded in 2009 by Daniel Terry and Harlan Crystal, engineers and gaming industry outsiders, who wanted to bring the excitement of social gaming to the mobile platform.
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Carrie Simonds
VP of People and Brand
Andrew Gaines
Product Manager
Nicholas Pezarro
Associate Product Manager
Daniel Terry
CCO & Executive Chairman
Nihit Sinha
Product Manager
Harlan Crystal
CTO
Julie Dragland
Partnerships & Business Development
Brian Shih
Vice President of Product Development
Alex Muscat
Executive Art Director
Cass Phillipps
Director of Story
Ben Liu
CEO
Chelsea Ono Horn
Product Manager
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Pocket Gems revenue climbs 32% to hit $82 million in 2013
Best year yet in company history
Monetizer: Epic Empire
Pocket Gems' action-RPG town-builder mash-up
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: One big arrival and a massive clear out
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Ben Liu
Pocket Gems' CEO on identity through Street Fighter II
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Heroes of Dragon Age tries my patience and wallet
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
2013 In Review: Pocket Gems' Ben Liu
Let's break fresh new ground in 2014
Want to get your game noticed during the holidays? Forget it and wait until January, says Pocket Gems
GDC Next: Save money and skip Christmas
McDonald's fires up Pocket Gems' NFL Runner with power-up codes
Mighty Wings boxes give you a boost
San Francisco Week: Pocket Gems on how a history of success is helping to secure the city's future
CEO Ben Liu on the Bay's big draw
Pocket Gems scores 2 million downloads with each of its first 2 published titles
Amazing Ants and Chasing Yello prove popular
How to understand mobile player behaviour, according to Pocket Gems
CEO Liu on mastering metrics
Chart of the Week: Higher the screen resolution, higher the monetisation
Apart from iPads
They're All Hot
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2013
The shakers, makers and movers
Becoming a publisher is part of our journey says Pocket Gems
Spreading the knowledge around
Pocket Gems looks to W3i to help replicate iOS success on Android
How to make money on Google's OS
Pocket Gems turns publisher in big iOS and Android push
Social studio looking for partners
GDC 2012: Pocket Gems' Ben Liu on launching games fast and iterating even faster for App Store success
#gdc New content weekly, new features every 2 weeks
Global Winners
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2012
The movers and shakers of the past 12 months
Pocket Gems builds out Android presence with third release Tappily Ever After
2011 was good. Will 2012 be better?
Freemium favourite Pocket Gems hits 40 million downloads on App Store
Holds top 10 position for 40 weeks
Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2011
The movers & shakers of the past 12 months
Pocket Gems' iOS freemium games are generating more than $2 million a month
Financing fuelled growth
Social mobile studio Pocket Gems gains growth funding of $5 million
Round led by Sequoia Capital