Meanwhile, I skimmed
ZhugeEX's work's
website, and a few things jumped out at me. First of all,
look at this guy. If he's not fucking kids, he's trying his damnedest. Everyone else on the page has fairly professional headshots, one person is clearly speaking at a conference, this guy took a selfie in his dimly lit room, and his receding hairline screams to me that he wants to replenish his youth by sucking out kids' life force through a meat straw. By the way,
that's not how acronyms work.
Anyway, the company. What's up with
this About section? It doesn't tell you anything about the value the company actually provides. "A long time ago, our founder wrote a blog post. The Chinese video game market has been big for a long time, and we noticed! We worked in other countries, too!" Most of the snippet is just about how lucrative the Chinese market can be, which we all already know about. It reads like the same kind of puff piece they post regularly in the Blog section of the website. We're meant to infer that the company is valuable because the market is valuable.
From what I gathered, the people listed are more or less the entirety of the company. Most of their About snippets just list how many languages they speak and how long they've been with the company. Generously, three of Niko's employees seem to do any actual work; the rest are glorified HR or Community Managers like ZhugeEX. Well, I suppose the janitor must have a lot of work cut out for them cleaning off ZhugeEX's Chiyo figurines.
All this to say, I'm not sure this consulting firm actually does much of anything, particularly on the California side of it. I wonder if these morons are being taken for a ride, or if they're the ones driving. Either way, the company smells.