CPO & Co-Founder at Messengage.ai
Sebastian Dettweiler
Sebastian brings more than 20 years of experience in digital advertising and SaaS product development. For the last 9+ years he hast been working at Meta leading various teams across Meta’s Business Partnerships and Product Partnerships organization. He has overseen partnerships enabling $5B+ annual revenue for Meta’s business and helped various tech companies to scale from almost zero revenue to billions of dollars. Sebastian has a strong personal value for problem solving and building scalable tech products to address real market needs. After using this passion to help tech companies around the world, he has decided to take it to the next level and build his own company.
Questions & Answers
What's the story behind your company?
I've always had a strong entrepreneurial passion throughout my career. Even when I joined Facebook in 2014 I told my hiring manager that I will probably leave Facebook in a few years to build my own business. Fast forwarding 10 years, Rea, who I met during my time at Meta, told me about various challenges in the Gaming industry, which triggered my problem solving passion and led to the first idea, which now became Messengage AI. It's been the right problem at the right moment in time with the right people, which led to our new endeavor.
What problem or opportunity inspired you to start your company, and how has your vision evolved since then?
The Gaming industry is facing several headwinds for a few years now. Margins are getting squeezed, multiple decades of dependency on the large platforms and a lack of focus on direct player relationships led to a point, where gaming companies have to play defense while trying to innovate and build amazing gaming for the billions of players out there. We started this journey to empower all gaming companies to take back the control, build highly profitable businesses and develop the best games possible, that we all love and enjoy.
