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The Analytics Company That Taught Its Dashboards to Act
ThinkingData spent a decade helping game studios see what players were doing. Now, renamed ThinkingAI, it wants its software to do something about it - without letting the machine have the final word.
Sangrak Choi Built OP.GG by Treating Every Player Search Like a Product Decision
A childhood habit of building fan sites became a global gaming-data company. The useful lesson is smaller: listen closely, ship quickly, and let real players tell you what deserves to exist.
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson is the Chief Business Officer and Head of Storytelling Studio at Pocket Gems, the San Francisco mobile gaming studio behind Episode and War Dragons. With a background spanning management consulting, clean-tech startups, and entrepreneurship, Dawson joined Pocket Gems in 2011 and helped scale it into one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in the world — overseeing products that have been downloaded over 325 million times and platforms where billions of story episodes have been read. He holds degrees from Yale (Ethics, Politics & Economics) and Stanford (MBA, MS in Environment & Resources), and has become one of the sharper strategic voices in mobile interactive storytelling.