Lee Hutchinson is the CEO of Double Eleven Limited, Lee Started in his career in the games industry in 2002 as a software engineer working his way up the ladder to Lead roles in Engineer and Production at Rare Ltd, 2K Games and Rockstar. Lee Founded Double Eleven in 2009 and has since grew the company to over 300 employees in 2 locations working for large partners such as Microsoft, Sony, Paradox, Rockstar as well as other successful Independent developers
I'll be doing a talk on what it takes/took to go from ~70 employees to ~300 in 5 years. Whilst retaining a high retention rate.
Takeaway:
People will leave with a better understanding of what it takes to scale a studio and have a better idea how to look after their people.
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