Studio Journey
How Scopely's cultural tenet of 'iterate to greatness' led to $10bn in revenue
Pocketgamer.biz catches up with Scopely Co-CEOs Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira as 2025 kicks off
Profile
Walter Driver
Job Title
CEO
Organisation Scopely
About
CEO of mobile game publisher Scopely, Walter Driver is a longtime social gaming entrepreneur with a proven track record of scaling startups quickly.
Scopely’s rapid growth earned it recognition from Goldman Sachs as one of the Top 100 Private Companies in 2012.
Prior to Scopely, Walter founded and served as CEO of O Negative Media, a leading developer of social applications on the Facebook and MySpace platforms with more than 30 million users.
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