Spin Master Corp.
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Sep 17, 2026
Ronnen HararyGUEST
And I took her advice.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
And after I stepped down from being co-CO at Spin Master, I took a year and a half off.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
I was on sabbatical.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
And I sat in my apartment in Tel Aviv on my roof.
7 MINS LATER
William SalviHOST
But like, I know you you got some inspiration from back in Israel about what is it? Earth buddy, the Earth buddies, Earth buddies.
William SalviHOST
Yeah.
William SalviHOST
So tell me about like that situation and how it basically turned into creating Spin Master.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
Well, we graduated from university with $10,000 in the bank account because we had a business in university called Campus Faces, pre-internet.
Maheen BariHOST
Joining us today is Fred Tremblay, the VP of Strategic Growth at Altkey Studio.
Maheen BariHOST
Fred brings nearly two decades of experience navigating commercial strategy for global entertainment brands, including Hasbro, Metal, Disney, and Spin Master and previously led high-impact digital initiatives at BCom Studios for properties like Dungeons & Dragons, Transformers, Star Wars, and Marvel.
Maheen BariHOST
Now at Altkey, a studio at Cubic-based Indie Studio, which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next August, Fred is helping a focused, highly organized team prove that small studios can still make on ambitious multi-platform projects while they master adaptation, professional processes, and human-first creativity.
Maheen BariHOST
Today, we explore how an indie company can thrive in difficult times by building real capacity for change.
Joe FerenczPANELIST
I said, you know how toy companies approach the business? They throw 16 new ideas on the shelf every year and they hope one of them lands.
Joe FerenczPANELIST
And they're all good ideas and they're all researched and they're all produced at the highest caliber that a bunch of smart people can do it at a place like Mattel or Hasbro or Lego or Spin Master.
Joe FerenczPANELIST
These are really smart, motivated people.
Joe FerenczPANELIST
They don't know what's going to hit.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
It is your culture because that's the way you...
Ronnen HararyGUEST
That's the way, you know, you're, you're trying to figure out, you know, like, how's, what's the secret sauce in Spin Master, right? So I can only articulate it so, so, so much [laughs].
Ronnen HararyGUEST
You know, there's...
Ronnen HararyGUEST
It's, it's hard to put everything to words, but it's like that is, that is what has made us who we are, and protecting that.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
You know, we actually take pride in the fact when people leave.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
You know, our best, best individuals are the ones that come back, and we'll always take people back because we also firmly believe that, you know, it's your life and you should be on your own journey.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
And if your journey with Spin Master has come to an end and you wanna do something else, like, we're here to support you.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
We, we love our alumni.
BradHOST
Yeah.
BradHOST
Watched a lot of Figure It Out as a kid, and really wanted all those toys from Spin Master and the boom boxes and the pogo sticks and stuff.
BradHOST
Yeah, for sure.
MarkHOST
Run through Toys R Us-
Count CreepyheadHOST
If you have different scales Batman, it's even more fun.
Count CreepyheadHOST
So if you have the Spin Master's Batman, it's perfect.
Count CreepyheadHOST
My Batman, though, broke at the knee.
Count CreepyheadHOST
So if you can picture, Batman really has no paint application.
Jen GersonHOST
Hello, ladies and gentlemen of On The Line.
Jen GersonHOST
Today we have with us Ronan Hariri, a Canadian entrepreneur, television and film producer, philanthropist and co-founder of Spin Master, a global children's entertainment company.
Jen GersonHOST
And he's behind brands like Paw Patrol, Hatchimals and Air Hogs.
Jen GersonHOST
He's also just written a book, provocative book, No Experience Necessary.
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Ronnen HararyGUEST
I had this theory that the 20s is such an incredible time to start a business and that you have wonderful things that accrue to you in your 20s that don't necessarily accrue to you later on in life.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
And as a result of us starting our business at 23, I wanted to share what those special things were to other people and put that down into written form.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
So when I stepped down from being co-CEO of Spin Master after 27 years, I took a sabbatical for a year and a half.
Ronnen HararyGUEST
And in that time, I wrote this book.
Betsy ForeGUEST
I studying industrial design and became a toy inventor out of university, I thought, oh my gosh, I can't get better than this.
Betsy ForeGUEST
I was selling my ideas to Spin Master, Mattel, Hasbro, right? It was so much fun.
Betsy ForeGUEST
And then, yeah, and then I'd heard about a guy in the UK who was building the next like Pokemon of the UK.
Betsy ForeGUEST
It was called Moshi Monsters, all digital at the time.
DashaNARRATOR
That bet has already paid off.
DashaNARRATOR
Sticker Box was acquired by Spin Master, the toy company that makes Paw Patrol play sets, in August.
DashaNARRATOR
The sale valued Sticker Box at between $35 million and $50 million.
DashaNARRATOR
While it's a counter-bet against AI, it's part of the rise of AI, Ferrero said.
DashaNARRATOR
That bet has already paid off.
DashaNARRATOR
Sticker Box was acquired by Spin Master, the toy company that makes Paw Patrol play sets, in August.
DashaNARRATOR
The sale valued Sticker Box at between $35 million and $50 million.
DashaNARRATOR
While it's a counter-bet against AI, it's part of the rise of AI, Ferrero said.
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