Supercell, Scopely Vet Bill Kang Joins Lil Snack as COO

Gaming firm Lil Snack has tapped Scopely and Supercell alum Bill Kang as its new chief working officer.

Since launching three years in the past, Lil Snack now operates greater than 20 every day video games throughout platforms together with Netflix, Peacock and Reddit, and has seen engagement develop 500% 12 months over 12 months, surpassing a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of performs. Kang joins the corporate following its greater than $8 million in funding final 12 months from traders together with a16z, Lerer Hippeau and Waverley Capital. Hasbro can be a companion and minority investor in Lil Snack.

As COO, Kang will lead operations and business technique, “scaling the engine that ships new games daily while deepening and expanding Lil Snack’s partnerships across streaming, publishing, and other consumer platforms,” per the corporate.

Kang joins Lil Snack after 12 years at Supercell, the Finnish cellular gaming developer behind “Clash of Clans” and “Brawl Stars.” Previously he labored at Scopely alongside different members of the Lil Snack founding workforce.

“Bill is one of the most respected operators in mobile gaming, and his decision to join us says everything about where the industry is heading,” Lil Snack co-founder and CEO Eric Berman stated. “Our mission is to bring bite-sized play to the world. Bill’s experience scaling global, multi-billion-dollar game companies is exactly the rocket fuel we need to capture the massive opportunity in front of us.”

“Bill and I first crossed paths in the earliest days of Scopely,” Lil Snack Co-Founder Travis Chen stated. “Working together again — now on the opposite end of the games spectrum, building small daily experiences instead of forever games — feels like a full-circle moment for both of us.”

“At Supercell and Scopely, we focused on building games that could delight and retain players for a decade,” Kang stated. “Lil Snack inverts that model: instead of asking people to find our games, we bring play to where people already are — bite-sized daily habits woven into the platforms they love, driving real engagement for our partners. Scaling that engine is the exact kind of puzzle I love to solve.”