In the words of doge (the popular, rather nonsensical dog Internet meme): Wow. The first of many brilliant ideas to combine the names of two or more King games into one title.Ĥ & 5. This one also made it onto Apple’s App Store under a very clever alias: Candy Pony Run – Sweet Running Game Saga. What purpose does the second half of the title serve? WHY IS IT A SWEET SAGA?

Candy Pony Run might get the developer into trouble, but it’s innocent enough. Not only does this game contain the entire name of Candy Crush Saga, in order, it also obviously rips off the mascot from another developer’s popular game, Cut the Rope. He was knighted by the Italian President in December 2016 with the title of Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia.This is just awesome. He was reportedly identified as the poster child for Europe's mobile gaming sector. According to an interview in the Daily Telegraph, he also has a positive reputation in San Francisco as a leading tech figure following a dinner with Mark Zuckerberg. Zacconi is a leading figure in the UK tech industry and is a proponent of the UK government's efforts to establish a tech city in East London. Īccording to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Zacconi is worth an estimated £410 million, an increase of £15 million from the previous year. He said he would remain in the King CEO post until July 1, 2019, but would stay the chairman. He has since grown the company into one of the most successful mobile gaming businesses worldwide. He left this company shortly after its merger with and in March 2003, he co-founded King, becoming the CEO. In 2001, he left Spray and moved to the UK as Entrepreneur in Residence for Benchmark Capital until August 2002 when he became vice president of European sales and marketing at Terrence 'Lee' Zehrer's uDate. Īt the start of the dotcom boom in 1999, Zacconi joined the Swedish online messaging startup Spray before it was purchased by Lycos Europe in 2000. His first career role was as a consultant during a two year long stint at LEK consulting, between 19. One of his roles during this time included a six-year period as project manager at Boston Consulting Group, between 19.

Career Īfter leaving university, Zacconi worked as a consultant. He attended Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome from where he graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics. On May 26, 2019, Zacconi announced he was stepping down as CEO of King. King is the developer of the popular mobile game app Candy Crush Saga. He is best known as CEO of King, a video game development company he founded in 2003. Riccardo Zacconi is an Italian businessman, management consultant, and video game developer. Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli

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