In the Hot Seat: Mattel163 COO Devin Nambiar on Uno and life after the NetEase deal
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Mattel163 reports over $1 billion lifetime revenue, nearly $250 million ARR and 20 million MAUs across four live games after Mattel buys NetEase’s stake for $318 million. The team keeps classic UNO rules and ships synchronous PvP to copy the table social highs, admits the social layer is still imperfect, and uses long retention, session time, ROAS and PLTV as scaling signals. Cross‑border success comes from hands‑off investment, local seed teams, time on the ground and trust building.
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- 0:00Welcome to PGC Hot Seat
- 0:27Deborah Nambiar Mattel 163
- 1:32East meets West Mattel 163
- 4:20Player preferences East vs West
- 7:06Scaling mobile games early
- 8:53Global teams across continents
- 10:57Physical IPs into mobile hits
- 13:28Cultural intuition teams
- 15:31PGC Shanghai forward
- 16:52Mattel 163 future plans
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