“There isn’t one thing that is done very differently: there are just 100 things that we do maybe 1 per cent better than other people.” ![]() ![]() “Our Solitaire app looks very similar to thousands of other Solitaire apps,” says Akin Babayigit, Tripledot’s co-founder and chief operating officer. As a result, Tripledot tops the FT-Statista ranking of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. Yet one start-up, London-based Tripledot Studios, has turned this seemingly commoditised property into the foundation of a highly profitable business with more than 400 staff, about 50mn monthly active users and “several hundred million dollars” in revenue last year, according to its founders. This enduringly popular single-player time-filler, also known as patience and Klondike, is the grandfather of the “casual” puzzle games that now dominate the download charts: it has been bundled in almost every version of Microsoft Windows for more than 30 years. Search any app store for ‘solitaire’ and dozens of near-identical games will be listed. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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