Because he always said that for him, the key thing was to be “I always had in myself the need to become an entrepreneur and to have my own thing. He had always been curious, a trait he learned from his father. But I prefer to do something else.’ The only problem is that I had no idea what the something else would be,” Zacconi told CNBC’s “The “After 10 days, I told him, ‘Look, thank you so much. Born in 1967 and raised in Rome, Italy, he spent time at his father’s dental practice after high school. But its near-bankruptcy was the first of many struggles the company would have to go through before making “Candy Crush Saga” work on a massive scale.Īcconi could have become a dentist. The business was saved, and eventually went on to become one of the world’s most successful gaming companies, with “Candy Crush Saga” making $258 million in the third quarter of 2019 alone according to data from consultancy Sensor Tower. And in the middle of the fax, the fax machine broke down. And suddenly, we heard that a fax was coming through. I was physically on the floor, sitting on the floor with my co-founder. So, we would’ve had to sign to shut down the company that day,” Zacconi said. And the signed papers with the financing had still not arrived. “I had a flight booked in the evening to fly back to Italy.
It got to Christmas Eve and Zacconi thought he would have to abandon the business. But for Morris to make the cash available, his trustees had to give permission and there was no sign of the paperwork coming through. Then one investor gave Midasplayer a lifeline: Zacconi’s former boss Mel Morris, the founder of uDate.
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