We’re a fast-growing business,” says Michael Acton Smith, founder and chief executive of online games and entertainment company Mind Candy. “Suddenly we’ve got to the point where we have 130-140 employees. We’re a company with processes and bureaucracy, and there are people in the office I don’t actually know.”
Mr Acton Smith adds: “Obviously, I have more responsibility than I once had and I do have to find a balance between having fun and having a serious role.”
In person, he seems as though he is straddling this line rather well. In his late thirties, he looks more like the singer of an indie band than the head of a business. In fact, he is speaking while having a beer at Silicon Drinkabout, a weekly get-together for London’s tech entrepreneurs.