It has taken a lot of thinking and hard decisions, but I have decided to leave my current job. I have left my resignation for my position as Sales Director of Apaja Online Entertainment and will be stepping down during October.
My little over 1½ years in Apaja have given me great ways to grow as a person and help push the company forwards. When I joined, there were 16 of us and we were all crowded into one side of our current office. What more, we were active only in a few countries and mainly beginning our internationalisation. Today, there are close to 40 people, Apaja has 7 sites open does direct business in 10 countries. Apaja’s product portfolio has grown from a simple gaming site to fully taking advantage of social networking, online identities, virtual worlds (something still coming) and combining all this with casual gaming and thus taking the service to a totally new level. I leave the company in good spirit and truly wish all the best to all of the great talented people I’ve had the chance to work with. I’m very happy to have taken this ride and seen where it has taken the company, however now it is time to go.
I cannot fully disclose where I am going - not just yet, but something I said earlier over here (what made me choose Apaja over larger companies) still holds true. Vierityspalkki.fi has heard some of the rumours circulating around and I only saw it best to confirm it.
While you’re at it, feel free to point people to this address - there will be more disclosures in the coming days.
Congratulations, Antti, on making a good decision! I look forward to hearing more. BTW: There is some big news about some friends of ours in Australia. I am not at liberty to tell you just yet, but once I get permission, I’ll be shouting it from the mountain tops!
Posted by Roxie DeAngelis on September 24th, 2007.