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who says there’s no money in video games
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 billionaires of the video game
industry
Forbes caught up with minecraft creator
Markus Persson to see what life is like
after he sold this company to Microsoft
for two and a half billion dollars for
this list we’re looking at those people
involved in the video game industry
through any means who have amassed the
net worth of more than a billion dollars
in order to be eligible the billionaires
need to be living so even though
Nintendo president Yoshi Yoshi had
amassed over 2 billion in his lifetime
he has since passed on and therefore
will not be eligible
I also apologize in advance for the
inevitable pronunciation North
difference come how special ever came
kim tech jin innocent villagers are in
danger someone has to have connection is
the founder and current CEO of ncsoft
a company who specialized in MMORPG
based out of South Korea and providing
online dating to roughly 60 countries
your long line is now over exile welcome
see you are enrolled ncsoft had a
revenue in 2014 of over 70 million and
it’s key games include Guild Wars one of
the few online games available to play
without a subscription wildstar a on and
Selenia series which has attracted over
40 million players throughout the years
their games have received both critical
and commercial success and Kim’s total
net worth is now valued at one point one
four billion after he increased his
stake in the company to 12%
there’s another wave coming number nine
Markus notch Persson so when you’re a
kid we would invent and you was the
typical and the basement kind of playing
with the computers now your mom saying
you’ll never amount to anything you’re
like yeah right mom thank Allah talk
about a success story this Swedish
entrepreneur was employed by King the
makers of candy crush saga when he began
to work on a personal side project a
little indie game you may have heard of
called minecraft maps if game exploded
in popularity and sold over 15 million
copies person sold the development
studio Mojang to Microsoft for a
whopping 2.5 billion in September 2014
Markus is now personally worth roughly
1.3 billion according to Forbes and
spends his money on traveling technology
and expensive mansion as he has since
purchased an enormous 70 million dollar
house in Beverly Hills we can’t really
blame him
the weather is apparently really nice
there I love the live with scattered
would it feel like a home look first
number 8 now go back to Baba
and when Baba was a child he had
significant heart issues and in Lua
physical activity he took an interest in
video games than their production saving
away for his future career he often
developed mobile gaming apps on the side
while employed full-time until he
decided to start his own company kelapa
in 2008 the same company which he now
owns 59% of
Kvapil is behind some of the
highest-grossing gaming acts on Android
in Japan including Dino Dominion and
rune story while his net worth has
fallen in recent years he is still worth
a staggering 1.6 billion as a 2016
number 7 kim jung-soo nearly 10 million
users in Korea more than 15 users in
China it also has another 5 million
users in Japan now serving at the sixth
richest man out of Korea Kim Jung Joo
earned his bat stacked by starting up
Korea’s largest gaming company next on
the publishing team behind games like
maplestory Vindictus and dirty bomb
founded in 1994 next one can be found in
over 70 companies and currently
entertained more than 350 million users
earning him a comfortable 3.8 billion
net worth
unfortunately this story doesn’t have
such a happy ending as Kim wasn’t dicted
on bribery charges in July of 2016
and resigned his next ons director he
now lives in New York and has since kept
a low profile although it’s almost four
billion dollars you can afford to do
nothing
number six eat newel after orange box we
have to get episode three out we know
how the trilogy ends and there a bunch
of loose ends and narrative arcs that
need to come to a conclusion and episode
three no stranger to the technology
limelight you all spent 13 years working
for Microsoft helping to develop Windows
one point zero one one point zero two
and one point zero three making him a
Microsoft millionaire not content with a
measly million quid Microsoft and became
a co-founder of valve with Mike
Harrington you mean it’s working for
real this time because I still have
nightmares about that cat no no valve is
behind some of the biggest names in
gaming including half-life portal and Z
left 4 dead series valve is also known
for its steam digital game store of
which it earns a percentage of all games
sold through the platform known as Lord
gaben in the PC community who revere him
as a god Newell’s hard work has paid off
earning him a network of just over 4
billion I really don’t have anything to
say about episode 3 right now when we do
we’ll certainly let people know but I
don’t have anything that I was going to
say never fine kwan-jin Kwan’s you’ve
been edges just inside the top 5 richest
men in Korea coming in at number 4 with
a net worth of 4.7 billion as of
November 2016 wande hails from South
Korea and founded smile gate in 2002 one
of Korea’s largest and most successful
gaming companies their biggest name to
date is crossfire one of the most
profitable games of all time
crossfire made 1.3 billion in 2014 alone
with a vast majority of that revenue
coming from China it currently has over
400 million registered users and 6
million concurrent players making it the
most played fps in the entire world call
duty looks like a little baby decided
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number four she serving as chairman of
the board a chief executive officer for
giant interactive use who has helps the
company become one of the biggest online
gaming developers in China despite being
relatively unknown to Western audiences
giant is a well-established and
respected brand in China due to their
easily accessible MMO they are behind
the blockbusters eg online where most of
that revenue can be attributed to its
in-game purchases and gambling mechanics
with real-world money while trading up
his company has been stagnant since July
2016 amid asset restructuring his worth
was roughly still 5.4 billion at the
time according to Forbes number three
bang Zedong
named Zedong also known as Kony’s name
has been rich for quite a while but his
worth had skyrocketed in recent months
due to a forty five percent rise in his
shares in the company placing him in our
top three ddong co-founded and served 16
years as CTO for 10 cent one of the
largest Internet companies in the world
well known for its Instant Messenger
Tencent QQ they announced their own
gaming console the tgp box and in 2011
they became a Chinese distribution of
League of Legends and have since become
the owners of its developers Riot Games
as well as supercell who developed clash
of clans by owning a three percent stake
in the company the dong is worth as of
November 2016 roughly eight point six
billion number two
William Dean
now we’re reaching the big boy Jing
actually has an interesting and storied
history with money as he was once
China’s wealthiest man and became the
country’s first internet-based
billionaire way back in 2003 now he has
to settle for fifth richest bummer
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Bing is the founder and CEO of Nettie’s
the development team behind various
Chinese games like fantasy westward
journey
they also license popular Western games
in China including small titles like
World of Warcraft Starcraft 2 and
overwatch through a partnership with
Blizzard analysis predict that net eases
revenue will grow to almost 6 billion
shooting up the company’s share price
and aiding William to incurrent net
worth of thirteen point four billion
number one math let’s hang
what hang founded Tencent whom as we
mentioned before with Zhang Zedong are
the makers of the tgp box and current
owners of Riot Games and supercell in
his early years he took up various jobs
in order to keep the company afloat
including janitorial duties what hangs
has come a long way since and in 2004
content launched its online gaming
platform platform which now hosts games
like legends of ulong and legend of john
you on both of which helped boost the
company’s revenues from 5.1 billion
he now serves as president CEO and
executive board member of the company
according to force
he is among the top 50 richest men in
the entire world with a net worth of 23
billion as of November 2016 so once you
have a cunt on yet we’re gonna take the
cool fear yet idea for doing a
changeover tada
she goes income do you agree with our
list does this list make you want to
seek a new career path I’ve got the
proper game and no sure way to be sure
are you talking with me man for more
jaw-dropping job Ken published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I’m with you and the time to act is
always
[Music]
who says there’s no money in video games
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 billionaires of the video game
industry
Forbes caught up with minecraft creator
Markus Persson to see what life is like
after he sold this company to Microsoft
for two and a half billion dollars for
this list we’re looking at those people
involved in the video game industry
through any means who have amassed the
net worth of more than a billion dollars
in order to be eligible the billionaires
need to be living so even though
Nintendo president Yoshi Yoshi had
amassed over 2 billion in his lifetime
he has since passed on and therefore
will not be eligible
I also apologize in advance for the
inevitable pronunciation North
difference come how special ever came
kim tech jin innocent villagers are in
danger someone has to have connection is
the founder and current CEO of ncsoft
a company who specialized in MMORPG
based out of South Korea and providing
online dating to roughly 60 countries
your long line is now over exile welcome
see you are enrolled ncsoft had a
revenue in 2014 of over 70 million and
it’s key games include Guild Wars one of
the few online games available to play
without a subscription wildstar a on and
Selenia series which has attracted over
40 million players throughout the years
their games have received both critical
and commercial success and Kim’s total
net worth is now valued at one point one
four billion after he increased his
stake in the company to 12%
there’s another wave coming number nine
Markus notch Persson so when you’re a
kid we would invent and you was the
typical and the basement kind of playing
with the computers now your mom saying
you’ll never amount to anything you’re
like yeah right mom thank Allah talk
about a success story this Swedish
entrepreneur was employed by King the
makers of candy crush saga when he began
to work on a personal side project a
little indie game you may have heard of
called minecraft maps if game exploded
in popularity and sold over 15 million
copies person sold the development
studio Mojang to Microsoft for a
whopping 2.5 billion in September 2014
Markus is now personally worth roughly
1.3 billion according to Forbes and
spends his money on traveling technology
and expensive mansion as he has since
purchased an enormous 70 million dollar
house in Beverly Hills we can’t really
blame him
the weather is apparently really nice
there I love the live with scattered
would it feel like a home look first
number 8 now go back to Baba
and when Baba was a child he had
significant heart issues and in Lua
physical activity he took an interest in
video games than their production saving
away for his future career he often
developed mobile gaming apps on the side
while employed full-time until he
decided to start his own company kelapa
in 2008 the same company which he now
owns 59% of
Kvapil is behind some of the
highest-grossing gaming acts on Android
in Japan including Dino Dominion and
rune story while his net worth has
fallen in recent years he is still worth
a staggering 1.6 billion as a 2016
number 7 kim jung-soo nearly 10 million
users in Korea more than 15 users in
China it also has another 5 million
users in Japan now serving at the sixth
richest man out of Korea Kim Jung Joo
earned his bat stacked by starting up
Korea’s largest gaming company next on
the publishing team behind games like
maplestory Vindictus and dirty bomb
founded in 1994 next one can be found in
over 70 companies and currently
entertained more than 350 million users
earning him a comfortable 3.8 billion
net worth
unfortunately this story doesn’t have
such a happy ending as Kim wasn’t dicted
on bribery charges in July of 2016
and resigned his next ons director he
now lives in New York and has since kept
a low profile although it’s almost four
billion dollars you can afford to do
nothing
number six eat newel after orange box we
have to get episode three out we know
how the trilogy ends and there a bunch
of loose ends and narrative arcs that
need to come to a conclusion and episode
three no stranger to the technology
limelight you all spent 13 years working
for Microsoft helping to develop Windows
one point zero one one point zero two
and one point zero three making him a
Microsoft millionaire not content with a
measly million quid Microsoft and became
a co-founder of valve with Mike
Harrington you mean it’s working for
real this time because I still have
nightmares about that cat no no valve is
behind some of the biggest names in
gaming including half-life portal and Z
left 4 dead series valve is also known
for its steam digital game store of
which it earns a percentage of all games
sold through the platform known as Lord
gaben in the PC community who revere him
as a god Newell’s hard work has paid off
earning him a network of just over 4
billion I really don’t have anything to
say about episode 3 right now when we do
we’ll certainly let people know but I
don’t have anything that I was going to
say never fine kwan-jin Kwan’s you’ve
been edges just inside the top 5 richest
men in Korea coming in at number 4 with
a net worth of 4.7 billion as of
November 2016 wande hails from South
Korea and founded smile gate in 2002 one
of Korea’s largest and most successful
gaming companies their biggest name to
date is crossfire one of the most
profitable games of all time
crossfire made 1.3 billion in 2014 alone
with a vast majority of that revenue
coming from China it currently has over
400 million registered users and 6
million concurrent players making it the
most played fps in the entire world call
duty looks like a little baby decided
[Music]
number four she serving as chairman of
the board a chief executive officer for
giant interactive use who has helps the
company become one of the biggest online
gaming developers in China despite being
relatively unknown to Western audiences
giant is a well-established and
respected brand in China due to their
easily accessible MMO they are behind
the blockbusters eg online where most of
that revenue can be attributed to its
in-game purchases and gambling mechanics
with real-world money while trading up
his company has been stagnant since July
2016 amid asset restructuring his worth
was roughly still 5.4 billion at the
time according to Forbes number three
bang Zedong
named Zedong also known as Kony’s name
has been rich for quite a while but his
worth had skyrocketed in recent months
due to a forty five percent rise in his
shares in the company placing him in our
top three ddong co-founded and served 16
years as CTO for 10 cent one of the
largest Internet companies in the world
well known for its Instant Messenger
Tencent QQ they announced their own
gaming console the tgp box and in 2011
they became a Chinese distribution of
League of Legends and have since become
the owners of its developers Riot Games
as well as supercell who developed clash
of clans by owning a three percent stake
in the company the dong is worth as of
November 2016 roughly eight point six
billion number two
William Dean
now we’re reaching the big boy Jing
actually has an interesting and storied
history with money as he was once
China’s wealthiest man and became the
country’s first internet-based
billionaire way back in 2003 now he has
to settle for fifth richest bummer
[Music]
Bing is the founder and CEO of Nettie’s
the development team behind various
Chinese games like fantasy westward
journey
they also license popular Western games
in China including small titles like
World of Warcraft Starcraft 2 and
overwatch through a partnership with
Blizzard analysis predict that net eases
revenue will grow to almost 6 billion
shooting up the company’s share price
and aiding William to incurrent net
worth of thirteen point four billion
number one math let’s hang
what hang founded Tencent whom as we
mentioned before with Zhang Zedong are
the makers of the tgp box and current
owners of Riot Games and supercell in
his early years he took up various jobs
in order to keep the company afloat
including janitorial duties what hangs
has come a long way since and in 2004
content launched its online gaming
platform platform which now hosts games
like legends of ulong and legend of john
you on both of which helped boost the
company’s revenues from 5.1 billion
he now serves as president CEO and
executive board member of the company
according to force
he is among the top 50 richest men in
the entire world with a net worth of 23
billion as of November 2016 so once you
have a cunt on yet we’re gonna take the
cool fear yet idea for doing a
changeover tada
she goes income do you agree with our
list does this list make you want to
seek a new career path I’ve got the
proper game and no sure way to be sure
are you talking with me man for more
jaw-dropping job Ken published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I’m with you and the time to act is
always
[Music]
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