Inviziads: Using Pirates To Grow A Company – with Alok Kejriwal

Alok Kejriwal, Inviziads, Brand (branding), Indian Founders, International Founders, Scaling, Traffic

To prep for this interview I had to play “Flirty Fiona,” one of the addictive games created by Alok Kejriwal’s company Games2win, a top online gaming business.

When Alok realized that people were pirating games like Flirty Fiona, he came up with a clever solution that leveraged the free distribution and spawned an entirely new company, Inviziads. I invited him here to tell me how he did it and how his solution helped build a company with $2 million in annual sales.

Alok Kejriwal

Inviziads

Alok Kejriwal is co-founder and CEO of Games2win, which offers free and addictive online games. Games2win also owns Inviziads, the in-game ad network.

 

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