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Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How League of Legends Made It to Launch Without the Features That Really Made Them Money

Riot games is trying to self publish its first video game, which it's now calling league of legends. In two thousand eight, the company spent a million dollars building an intra structure that was too complex for them to manage on their own. The error in construction meant they had to start over from scratch and risk shutting down the company. When we come back in just a moment, how league of legends finally made it to launch without the feature that was actually going to make them money.

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