How I Started A $40M-Revenue Business Creating Tabletop Games
May 10th, 2021
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?
Hi! I’m Jamey Stegmaier, and I run Stonemaier Games, a tabletop game company based in St. Louis. We publish strategy games like Wingspan, Scythe, and Viticulture.
Stonemaier Games started with a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 that raised $65,980, and in 2020 our annual revenue eclipsed $18 million. Our latest game, Red Rising, is shown here (photo credit: Tim Chuon).
What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?
I’ve been enamored with both game design and entrepreneurship for as long as I can remember, so when tabletop game projects started to achieve success on Kickstarter in 2010 and 2011, I decided to create a game specifically to launch on that platform.
One mistake I still make (but I’m getting better at it) is to...
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