CHAPTER 2

Emily Greer

Cofounder, Kongregate

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The brother-sister duo Jim and Emily Greer cofounded Kongregate in 2006 as an online portal, platform, and community for sharing and playing primarily Flash video games in a variety of genres.

By 2010, Kongregate was supporting more than 8,500 developers across 30,000 games when GameStop, the largest video game retailer in the world, acquired the company to bolster its move into digital distribution.

In February 2014, Emily Greer became CEO, where she remains. Jim Greer stepped down to focus on CounterPAC, a super political action committee that “seeks to bring sanity and transparency to money in politics.” ...

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