Can you build an empire on a few agitated avians and some pugnacious pigs? Finland’sRovioappears to be giving it a good try. The company behind Angry Birds is planning to float on the New York Stock Exchange, a reports from its native land claims today.
In a shortinterviewwith Finnish business magazine Talouselämä, Chairman of Rovio’s board, Kaj Hed says that the company’s recent $42m funding round was the first step on the path for the company to become as big as Google or Facebook. “Our goal is to become number one in the world,” Hed says. Further down the line, a US IPO is part of the plan.
Rovio’s ambition as a small Finnish developer looking to make the most of its runaway smash hit success story has to be admired. It isn’t showing any sign of slowing down the expansion of the Angry Birds franchise to every possible platform, with amove into social gamingvia Facebookplanned for Maybeing a particularly interesting move.
The question is, can Rovio reach that lucrative floatation before the world gets bored of flinging birds at pigs?
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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