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Tencent turned a chat window into a business empire
Weixin and WeChat reach 1.439 billion monthly active accounts. Tencent’s bet is that the same network can keep selling games, move money and give AI a paying audience.
Jackpocket Turned a Gas-Station Errand Into a $750 Million Checkout - Then the Rules Bit Back
Peter Sullivan wrapped software, payments and a locked safe around the least digital object in American commerce: a paper lottery ticket. The result became a national consumer habit - and a case study in why regulation is both moat and trap door.
Manticore Games Inc.
Manticore Games is a San Mateo game studio behind Core, a free platform that lets people build, share, and play online multiplayer games without deep art or coding skills. Founded in 2016 by industry veterans Frederic Descamps and Jordan Maynard, the company built accessible creation tools on top of Unreal Engine and raised roughly $164M from backers including Epic Games, Benchmark, and SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 to power what it calls a 'games multiverse.'