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We are a small group of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating games using blockchain technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them. Our team hails from Epic Games, Zynga, EA, Activision, and Riot Games, where we led $1b+ franchises like “FarmVille”, and “Mafia Wars”.
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Team member Q&A.
Amitt Mahajan
CEO & Cofounder
What have you already built and what's next?
What influenced you to start a gaming company?
What's the difference between the games that exist today and blockchain games?
Where did this space even come from?
Adam Fern
Product Lead
Do candidates need to know a lot about games or the industry?
How do team members collaborate on a daily basis?
What's hard about what you're building?
Early Stage Team @ Proof of Play
Taking steps towards real-time decentralized gameplay with pirate nation
Taking steps towards real time decenrealized gameplay - Matt Van (Proof of Play)
Becky C
Head of People
Are there events that bring employees together in person?
How does the candidate experience set PoP apart from other employers?
What is the candidate experience like?
What makes your employee experience unique?
Why do people join PoP?
William Schmitt
Head of Studio
Are most of the people on your team gamers?
How can people prepare for an interview at PoP?
How do you find fun on your team?
What attracted you to PoP?
What type of skills are you looking for in a new hire?
What's the studio culture like?
Matt Van
Head of Engineering
Can you talk about the remote-first workplace at PoP?
How do you ensure everyone feels included when working remotely?
Is blockchain experience required to be an engineer at PoP?
What attracted you to PoP?
What myths about working at a gaming company aren't true at PoP?
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Amitt Mahajan
CEO & Cofounder
Amitt Mahajan
CEO & Cofounder
Team size & roles
Our team is small, but growing quickly! Currently, we have 20 team members:
- Engineering and product: 8
- Game team: 6
- Operations: 5
- Community: 1
Meet the team →
Collaboration Practices
- Daily virtual stand-up initiated by our dear pal, Geekbot.
- 2-4 offsites a year to “dope” places around the world.
- Company-wide Show-and-Tell at “Friday Wind Down” to show off work we’re excited about.
- Company-wide kick-off meeting on Mondays.
- Primarily asynchronous workflows with a heavy reliance on Linear as a source of truth.
- All meetings are transparently documented in Notion.
- Important conversations are held in the open in public Slack channels instead of DMs
Hours & location
- Work in US time zones
- 100% remote
- Mixed on-site and remote
Tools we use
- Solidity
- GraphQL
- Typescript
- React
- PostgresQL
Useful links
- Connect with our founder Amitt on LinkedIn.
- Read and listen to Amitt’s interview with Justin Khan (cofounder of Twitch) about his rise through the gaming industry.
- Watch an in-depth interview with Amitt discussing his background in tech, creating Farmville, and his take on crypto, NFTs, and the metaverse.
- Learn more about our game Pirate Nation.
- Listen to our CEO Amitt on the Real Third Web podcast discussing why he is working with on-chain technology for video games.
Company-level stats
- Technical founder(s)
- VC-backed
- B2C
- CEO-is-a-founder
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