Paul Thelen
Paul Thelen is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Big Fish Games. He has an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science ... More »
Big Fish Promotes CFO Dave Stephenson to President and CFO to Oversee Game Delivery and Distribution...
Mon, Dec 3, 2012, 6:26 PM EST - U.S. Markets closed Paul Thelen, Founder and CEO, Drives Product and Company Strategy; COO John Holland Oversees Growing Game Content Dave Stephenson, Big Fish President and CFO. (Photo: Business Wire) Multimedia Gallery URL Big Fish, the leading global ... Read more »
With wind at their backs, Seattle startups ride cloud of innovation
Big Fish just named Dave Stephenson its president, freeing up founder and Chief Executive Paul Thelen to focus on its new initiatives. Stephenson formerly led finance operations for the biggest group at Amazon.com, its North American retail business. He joined Big Fish as chief financial ... Read more »
Big Fish announces cloud game service, Roku deal
In his opening keynote speech at the Casual Connect game conference at Benaroya Hall today, Big Fish founder Paul Thelen announced a big plunge into cloud gaming. The company today is launching "Big Fish Unlimited," an online service that streams games to phones, tablets, PCs and TVs. ... Read more »
Casual-game developer Big Fish celebrates 10 years and 2 billion downloads
“Last year was a successful [transition] for Big Fish,” chief executive officer Paul Thelen said in a statement. “We achieved nearly 20 percent top line bookings growth last year and anticipate our growth rate to accelerate throughout 2013 and 2014, largely due to our new lines of ... Read more »
Big Fish Celebrates 2 Billion Downloads and Its 10th Consecutive Year of Record...
"2012 was a successful year of transition for Big Fish," said Paul Thelen, Big Fish Founder and CEO. "We achieved nearly 20% top line bookings growth last year and anticipate our growth rate to accelerate throughout 2013 and 2014, largely due to our new lines of business that are now at ... Read more »
Game streaming lives on as Big Fish launches 100 cloud games on Android devices
The service seems very similar to OnLive, which crashed in a big way on Aug. 17 and is now attempting a rebirth, but Big Fish chief executive Paul Thelen said in an interview with GamesBeat a few weeks ago that his service didn’t require nearly as much infrastructure, since Big Fish’s ... Read more »
Big Fish Games launches casual cloud gaming service for TVs, mobile, and PCs
Paul Thelen (pictured at top), chief executive of Big Fish, said the cloud service will offer all the benefits of cloud computing: the ability to log in from any device, a universal experience across platforms, and the ability to play high-qualty casual games across a web connection. The ... Read more »
Online Gambling Heats Up
“Is 2013 going to be a game-changer?” asked Paul Thelen of Big Fish Studios, which began offering a gambling app in Britain last fall. “No. But in 2014, it starts getting interesting.” ... Read more »
Big Fish Raises The Stakes With Real-Money Gambling On The iPhone With Big Fish Casino
“We have a strong conviction that mobile apps that combine social and real-money gambling are a powerful way to engage more users and increase overall monetization,” said Paul Thelen, Founder and CEO of Big Fish, in a statement. Facebook has also started to allow real-money gambling into ... Read more »
Tech Industry Sets Its Sights on Gambling
"We started with a one-pence slot machine," little more than a penny, said Paul Thelen, Big Fish's founder and chief executive. "Now it is up to a maximum of about $50 a bet. " Average revenue per player is exceeding $20 a day, whereas in virtual currency it was 30 or 40 cents. "Like in ... Read more »
After a year in development and $1M spent, Big Fish Games launches Fetch mobile game (exclusive)
There is no other game like Fetch.” Paul Thelen, founder and chief executive of Big Fish Games, asked the team to focus on an ambitious mobile title. Campbell, a former Nintendo developer, and Thompson, a former hardcore game maker, decided to build an adventure/arcade game for the iPad. ... Read more »
For Zynga, Online Poker Could Improve The Company's Average Daily Bookings Per User
According to Paul Thelen, Big Fish's founder and chief executive, "average revenue per player is exceeding $20 a day, whereas in virtual currency it was 30 or 40 cents". If Zynga, which recently reported a 17% decline in year-over-year Average Daily Bookings Per User ($0.061/user in 2011 ... Read more »
Xbox from Mars, iPhone 5 from Venus: 60% of mobile gamers are women
“If you are building for mobile and you want to scale to the broadest possible audience of purchasers, you do need to absolutely focus on [women,]” said Big Fish Games CEO Paul Thelen. Big Fish opened its very first real money mobile casino on iOS this past August, “You would think Texas ... Read more »
Big Fish takes to the cloud with Big Fish Unlimited • News • PC • Eurogamer.net
Company founder Paul Thelen announced the new option during his keynote address at Casual Connect yesterday in Seattle, where he explained that it would give users over a hundred games streaming directly to their computers, mobile devices and internet connected TVs. Additionally, Big ... Read more »
Big Fish Debuts Big Fish Unlimited, A Universal Cloud Gaming Service
“Big Fish Unlimited is a new way for customers to enjoy our games,” said Paul Thelen, founder and CEO of Big Fish. “While our downloadable PC and mobile games businesses are thriving, Big Fish Unlimited enables us to quickly reach new customers on new devices and in new territories.” In ... Read more »
Casual gaming conference kicks off in Seattle
Big Fish CEO Paul Thelen will kick off the conference with a keynote speech at 9:15 a.m. on July 24. Casual Connect includes an "Innovation Showcase" exhibit that shows off the 12 most innovative games for PCs and mobile platforms. There are also lectures on multiplatform games, social ... Read more »
Big Fish CEO shares the secrets of developer profitability (Casual Connect Kiev)
Big Fish CEO Paul Thelen took to the stage at Casual Connect Kiev this morning to talk about what developers should be doing to make more of it. Outside of the inevitable sales pitch (“make more money by publishing through Big Fish!”), Thelen focused on which baskets developers ... Read more »
Digital Game Monetization Summit analyzes gaming tendencies and trends
Courtesy of GamesIndustry, Paul Thelen of Big Fish Games, which has 14 million gamers visiting the site each month, notes that free-to-play games reach 1.2 billion PC users. “Free-to-play is a huge market, and there are people making crazy amounts of money,” Thelen said. ... Read more »
Big Fish shows off cloud gaming service
According to Xconomy, Big Fish founder and CEO Paul Thelen noted that connected, cross-platform gaming has been promised for many years but is just now starting to emerge in a real way. “This is one glimpse of where we think the future is going,” Thelen said. Big Fish is a veteran ... Read more »
VatorNews Big Fish Games bets on cloud delivery, real-money games
"Women are an underserved demographic," Paul Thelen, founder and CEO of Big Fish Games, told me in an interview. "While men are oversaturated. " (Note: Thelen will be one of the keynotes at our Splash LA event on the evening of May 30 at the famed and swanky Hollywood Roosevelt ... Read more »
