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Melbourne entrepreneur builds $3b gaming empire out of solitaire app

Tess Bennett

Melbourne entrepreneur Eyal Chameides traces the roots of his mobile gaming empire back to a simple theory: if he could build a game of solitaire that outshone the thousands of versions that already existed, then he could find enough users to attract a rush of advertising dollars.

Chameides and his two co-founders not only proved the theory, they smashed it out of the park. Their business, Tripledot Studios, which started up in 2017, is already worth about $US2 billion ($3.1 billion)

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Tess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter. Connect with Tess on Twitter. Email Tess at tess.bennett@afr.com

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