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A few months after in May, GREE’s first game, Tsuri-Suta (Fishing Star), was launched. The idea of selling virtual goods via mobile games was inspired by PC games that were already employing the same business model in Japan, Tanaka explained.

Games and virtual goods turned out to be a gold mine business model for GREE. For fiscal year 2011, paid services (virtual goods and social games) reached US$700 million in total sales.

IPO and overseas expansion

In December of 2008, GREE was listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange’s ‘Market of the High Growth and Emerging stocks.’ In April of 2009, GREE hit 10 million users, and that figure doubled to 20 million just 14 months later, in June 2010.

In the same year, GREE moved to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Business was great but still very much limited to within Japan’s borders. To bring GREE to greater heights, Tanaka knew that he had to expand his business abroad. And the two largest markets in the world, China and U.S, are certainly part of his plans. GREE Group (GREE and OpenFeint) currently has more than 190 million users globally and will continue to press forward to “make the world a better place through the power of the Internet.” That is GREE’s official corporate message, but as Tanaka took the last sip from his coffee, he elaborated, showing that he really means it:
" I think gaming is the biggest [form of] entertainment that we can have. However not everyone in the world is playing games. And for console games, there are only 200 million gamers out there. And you know, for people like you and us, you can’t really imagine, but there are people in the world who don’t have access to games even if they want to play. And I believe if you can play games on mobile, then everyone in the world who has a mobile should be able to play our games."