{"id":611,"date":"2011-03-31T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/?p=611"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:19:50","slug":"rob-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/rob-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Small: Miniclip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rob Small, 31 <br>Company<\/strong>: Miniclip <br><strong>Web<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniclip.com\">www.miniclip.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Facebook, Miniclip.com is the largest privately held website in the world, with 36 million users. Rob Small created the online gaming site six years ago, turning it into a worldwide smash hit with a Dancing Bush game depicting the US president. With around 400, mainly free, games to date and a user-base to drool over, advertisers have flocked. It also creates games for clients and licenses brand names and games to other sites. Since year two the company&rsquo;s been in profit. Turnover was &pound;12m last year and should double in 2007. Now watch it go truly global.<\/p>\n<p><b>2012 update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>11 years since its launch and the business is still consistently profitable. With double the amount of players, the site now has more than 65 million users a month, and 750 cross-platform games, Small&rsquo;s privately owned business continues to dominate the gaming world. With offices in six countries and games in 17 languages its global mission is also being realised.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Small, 31 Company: Miniclip Web: www.miniclip.com After Facebook, Miniclip.com is the largest privately held website in the world, with 36 million users. Rob Small created the online gaming site six years ago, turning it into a worldwide smash hit with a Dancing Bush game depicting the US president. 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