In the US Supercell has a six-person outpost working out of co-working space in San Francisco. Who says mobile gaming can’t bring people together in a meaningful way? This spring, two people who’d met at a meeting of one of those clans got married, he said, smiling. Leppinen estimates that there are almost 500,000 clans worldwide of no more than 50 members each.

Now it’s up to 11, said team lead and company co-founder Lassi Leppinen. “Every few weeks we’re running new servers,” he said.Ī year ago the team overseeing the development and maintenance of the Clash of Clans game (4.5 million daily players) had five members. Yliharju likens his sector’s growth to being strapped to a rocket. The analytic and engineering team has doubled in size in the past six months and is in search of personnel, said team lead Sami Yliharju, standing among his team beneath their “World Domination” map which displays real-time info on where in the world people are playing Supercell games. When I spent time with the customer support team in Helsinki, they told me that in September they had numbered six and now their ranks have grown to 15, with two more in an office in San Francisco (12 nationalities, giving support in 9 languages, handing about 20,000 customer communiques a week). There are no personal offices at Supercell, just several conference rooms with names like “Ultramarine” and “Unicorn Tears,” (a room with couches, stuffed unicorns and a TV). When you walk around Supercell’s offices, it seems that every group has its own corner, yet they freely mingle throughout the day. Sure, there’ s a team member that keeps the group adhering to some kind of schedule, but the chemistry of autonomy seems to have created a sense of responsibility that keeps the cells moving of their own volition. When I sat down with CEO Ilkka Paananen, a boyish 34-year-old decked out in Supercell attire, he told me his goal was to become the world’s least powerful CEO by relinquishing control to these “cells.” “Get the best people then get out of the way and let those people do their jobs,” Paananen said.Įvery cell makes its own decisions – regarding how to change or whether to kill a game – and the idea of having an autocratic leader in any group is abhorrent to the company. Supercell’s culture is all about small teams with autonomy doing what they do best.

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