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by benzible 2317 days ago
Words with Friends managed an actual exit (8 figures, mostly cash): https://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/zynga-paid-53-3m-to-buy-w...
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Wordfeud (similar app) made $4M in ads in 2018, not shabby for a single person company. It's now ten years since it launched and had the hype. Crazy.
Draw Something was a 9 figure exit (183 million). Also to Zynga.
That's just unbelievable. Digital copy of a decades-old game is worth $50M because of its app store rating.
Let's not fail to mention the millions of people that opened the app 50x per day and were shown 25 ads each time.