They’ve been in management for 11 years.
Brandon “Ryze” Beck and Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill are handing off management duties to Riot Games’ League of Legends. They plan to actually put the “S” in Riot Games, since LoL is their only high-profile work.
When we founded Riot eleven years ago, we spent virtually every waking hour of the day (and night!) thinking about how to make League of Legends as great of an experience as possible. As League started having success however, Riot Games grew from those humble beginnings where we could feed the whole team with a handful of pizzas to now having over 2,500 Rioters across 20 offices around the world. This growth has lots of benefits: our capabilities improved, our reach broadened, and we could deliver League of Legends and esports to more players than ever before. But this growth also meant that the majority of our time is allocated to “managing” the company rather than focusing on creating incredible experiences for players, which is what we really love to do.
This isn’t panic time, though. Beck and Merrill are leaving management of League of Legends in capable hands. Dylan Jadeja (CFO), Scott Gelb (CTO), and Nicolo Laurent (President) will be taking over those duties to allow the founders the opportunity to work on new horizons. So we’ll just have to wait and see what they cook up next.
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