Bringing People together through Fun
PeopleFun is an award-winning creator of mobile games for players across the globe with a mission of bringing People together through Fun. With an international team headquartered in Dallas, Texas, we believe in coming together as strong teams to create the most socially engaging experiences to bring our players together.
Our #1 word game, Wordscapes, transformed the word game category into one of the top genres on mobile. The growing PeopleFun team now has several exciting new projects in development across multiple genres. Above all, we put People first. We believe in creating everlasting relationships between our studio members and our players.
Studio Values
WE BUILD TRUST
We believe that trust is the foundation of strong teams. We have the courage to be vulnerable with each other in order to build that trust between each other. Upon this foundation, team members engage in productive debates openly, honestly, and transparently to achieve team goals together.
WE COLLABORATE AND GROW WITH HUMILITY
We embrace humility as the cornerstone of team collaboration, growth, and continual improvement. We believe in learning from each other by letting go of our egos and staying curious. We treat each other with respect based on a genuine desire to understand each other’s perspectives.
WE FOCUS ON TEAM RESULTS
We believe that we are stronger as teams than as individuals. Our team members are committed to each other and focused on delivering results because we care about the future growth of PeopleFun and the mission of bringing People together through Fun.
Meet Our Leaders
JOHN LEE — Chief Executive Officer
John is a product and analytics leader with a background in engineering. He started his career at EA. At GSN, he helped launch and grow Tiki Solitaire Tripeaks to one of the most successful Solitaire games on the mobile market. John has led teams of engineers, data analysts, and product managers and served as a product owner on several mobile games. He is passionate about tackling tough problems as a team. John is an avid gamer with favorites such as Starcraft, Tetris, Zelda BOTW, Hearthstone, Go, Chess, and many board games. When not playing or making games, he likes to play guitar and pet his cat.
SHAWN LOHSTROH — Chief Operating Officer
Shawn is an engineering leader and a maker at heart. He started his career in PC security and encryption and also worked with VOIP in its early days. Transitioning to games, Shawn joined Ensemble Studios and helped develop the Age of Empires franchise and Halo Wars. Moving into mobile, he was the first engineer on the hit game Words with Friends, bringing the title to Mobile and Facebook scaling it to over 25M DAU. Shawn has lead teams for over a decade and has a passion for developing engineering teams through best practices and great organizational structure. When you don't see him at work, you will often find him learning and tinkering with new languages, technologies, and devices.
JONATHAN BACH — SVP General Manager, Wordscapes Franchise
Jonathan is a seasoned studio and product leader with 25 years in mobile games, and interactive experience development. Beginning his early career in music technology he transitioned into games growing from a designer and producer into a product and studio leader holding key roles at Zynga, EA Pogo, LeapFrog, Baobab Studios, Nifty Games and others. Jonathan is passionate about building and leading high-performing teams, solving complex product and business challenges, and creating engaging, data-informed player experiences. He brings a strong focus on lean iteration, data driven and user-centric design, cross-functional collaboration. Outside of work, he enjoys playing music, raising his family in the SF Bay Area, and keeping an old Saab running.
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