👩‍⚖️Operators

We are a global team of 10+ full-time employees, headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Our team has decades experience creating online games and software platforms, with hundreds of millions of users. The products we have held leadership positions on have generated billions of dollars of revenue and our leaders have founded collectively over 9 companies in their careers.

Erik Bethke - CEO & Founder With over 27 years of experience creating online games, Erik Bethke now has his focus on settling the solar system. He created the Starfleet: Command series of games (Interplay and Activision) as CEO and founder of Taldren, was the CEO and founder of GoPets before exiting to Zynga, where he served as GM Farmville and Mafia Wars. Prior to that, he was CEO and Founder of Bee Cave Games. Erik is also the author of Game Design and Production (2001), co-editor of Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds (2008), holds 10 patents, and has both a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California, where as a graduate research assistant worked on the Galileo and Cassini UV Spectrometer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Keri Waters - Executive Chairman & Founder Keri is an inventor and founder with 20+ years of building new consumer platforms. Previously CEO & Founder at Buoy Labs, which won CES Best of Show 2018, an Edison Award, was in Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2016 and was acquired by Resideo (NYSE:REZI) in 2019. Investors and partners included Delta Faucet Company, Sand Hill Angels, Highway1 Accelerator, and USAA. Prior to that, as CEO she sold Arqetype to Vivo Rewards Ltd. Keri holds both a design patent and a utility patent for Buoy. BS Mechanical Engineering MIT, and MBA UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Joel Boutros - Principal Architect & Founder An accomplished technical leader with an excellent understanding of technology and its applications, and a proven track record of implementation successes in complex environments. 25+ years distributed systems development. Infra engineering roles at MySpace, Force10 Networks, and a Very Large Social Network.

You can read more information about our team at our website.