“Our median tenure might be the highest of all the non-Japanese studios,” he said. “In the Japanese studios, the culture around hiring is a little different. But I believe we have the highest median tenure [outside of Japan].
“And again, I’m not pounding my chest. I just think it’s part of this whole ecosystem that we’ve tried to build. We did not want to be big. Even during the Sly 1 timeframe, I remember there were conversations like, ‘if we’re ever bigger than 40 people, the company will explode’. And that felt like gospel at the time.
“But the reality is, you learn, and you build a management team and a leadership group that can handle, ‘hey, that guy’s really special. Maybe he can run part of it’. And ‘wow, we never had a recruiter before’… There’s a lot of little steps that it takes to be where we are. But you’re right that our bias has always been [to stay small].”
