Citron and Vishnevskiy began their gaming careers as 5-year-olds playing Nintendo on Long Island and in Los Angeles, respectively. They were programming for money by their teenage years and further honed their computer skills in college–Citron at Full Sail University in Florida and Vishnevskiy at Cal State Northridge. After graduating, Citron worked for gaming studios for a few years before launching his own Tetris-like game on the day App Store opened. When he couldn’t monetize the game, he took the social features he had built and turned them into a service for game developers. He expanded the company, OpenFeint, to 100 employees and sold it to the Japanese media company GREE for $104 million in 2011. Citron left a few months later and, after unwinding through three straight weeks of playing Final Fantasy IV, decided his work wasn’t done. “I had this itch, and still have the itch, to build something enduring and important,” Citron says.
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