25-year-old builds an app alone and without outside money – 10 years later he sells it for €50 million

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A 25-year-old French entrepreneur founded a start-up that developed an app for League of Legends. He managed the start-up without outside money or any employees. The LoL app grew for 10 years and became more and more popular. Now he managed a spectacular sale.

What is this app?

  • The company is called “Wargraphs”, the app for LoL “Porofessor”. A corresponding website can be found under “League of Graphs”. Corresponding apps are also available for the LoL offshoots Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra.
  • The app helps LoL players to track and improve their in-game stats: you can check how popular certain heroes are, which hero to use against them, which runes are used, which paths in the jungle have a chance of winning increase.
  • LoL players love to level up their game. According to Techcrunch, the app, along with the site, has 1.25 million daily users, and the company made €12.3 million in revenue last year.

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    Never took money from outside, never hired employees

    That’s what’s special: There is only one person behind entire websites and apps, Jean-Nicolas Mastin.

    He founded Wargraph at the age of 25 and ran it for 10 years without hiring employees or seeking outside funding.

    Who bought the company now? Wargraph has now been acquired by a Swedish company, MOBA Network, for €50m (via Techcrunch).

    The CEO says: Together with the founder, who joins the team, plans have already been made to further develop the project and bring the project to new games and markets.

    With the acquisition of Mastin, they have now gained a lot of competence that will put the company on the path to becoming the world’s best gaming community company.

    Being smarter than your opponent because you have more information – that’s Porofessor’s promise.

    The developer himself now wants to develop a game himself after 10 years of app development. Something to do with Hearthstone.

    But he also wants to do that without borrowing money from others.

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