Draw Something

Kaya's really interested in what really happens behind the scenes, the building, the testing, the uncertainty, the lessons, and the moments that most people never see.

What I also love about Kaya's approach is the way she builds curiosity into everything.

Kai is creating a space for builders, founders, and ambitious young people who want more than surface-level inspiration.

They want the real playbook.

I think that's the main way you can kind of monetize podcasts.

Like the main way I've seen it is there's two ways to do it, like through ad revenue, like getting sponsorship partnerships and then ad money.

And then you can also like gate certain episodes and have subscribers for that although I've seen that's like a less successful approach because you know like you want to get as many episodes out there as you can and like reach as many people as possible and gaining them it like it can kind of

hurt you hurt you long term

In 2004, he opened his own CPA firm, and in June 2008, three months before Lehman Brothers collapsed, he helped launch the Red Fox Income Fund.

He has also helped OMG Pop, the studio behind Draw Something, build its accounting systems before Zynga bought it in 2012.

David Tunstall is the founder and president of the Tunstall organization, a Charlotte-based CPA and fractional CFO firm that works in e-commerce, SaaS, and service businesses.

His clients have completed exits, mergers, and money raisins, totaling more than $1 billion.

Let's move forward a little bit.

I want to talk about OMG Pop.

This was the New York mobile game studio behind Draw Something.

And Zynga, the social game company, eventually bought the company.

had,

or Zynga had really just bought Draw Something Developer, a G-pop company.

for $180 million plus earnouts, which I think was another $30 million, then that was, at the time, that was a massive, that was like a really, really big viral hit.

Like, can't undersell how big that game was at the time.