At 35, he’s pocketing more than $50 million for a website that took him ten years to develop

game news At 35, he’s pocketing more than $50 million for a website that took him ten years to develop

A real success story

There are business stories whose success and sometimes stratospheric proportions make you dizzy. In this case, it is a Frenchman who is worried: Jean-Nicolas Mastin, a 35-year-old Parisian, has just sold his company, Wargraphs, to MOBA Network for the whopping sum of $54.6 million

But why, how? Everything goes back to the first successes of League of Legends over a decade ago. With the rise of the Riot Games title, this passionate hacker had the right idea to create a website listing many stats of his profile on LoL: There we then find the popularity of certain heroes, strategies, everything about the runes and how to possibly achieve victory.

League of Graphs

I started this journey ten years ago with League of Graphs, a quality stats website that has evolved to allow players to understand their game stats, champion performance, and other important aspects of the game. gameplay.

Since then he has gone even further by also offering an application integrated directly into the game, powered by Overwolff.

In 2017, I launched what is now called Porofessor and turned it into an in-game app that players can use in-game and in real-time, with support for Overwolf, a technology framework that allows third-party developers allowing for easy creation.

I’ve always taken a community approach to developing Porofessor and now, with the support of MOBA Network, I can bring even more value to players by reaching as many players as possible.

porofessor

On the way to new adventures

Therefore, two platforms have been created to help League of Legends players: Porofessor and League of Graphs… and that’s not all, because there is also their equivalent for Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra. A lucrative business ever since 1.25 million Internet users are said to be reported daily. In the past financial year, sales of 12.3 million dollars were booked.

And we don’t say that Jean-Nicolas Mastin was completely alone in running Wargraphs: he never had any employees and all merits (but also all profits) go to him. The 50 million euro sale is all the more prestigious after she has looked after her baby unaided for all these years.