Finland’s leading business media names Habbo Hotel “top of the decadeâ€
Now that we’ve reached the end of the first decade of this millennium (this is controversial
I know!), many news outlets have started to evaluate the tops and flops of the past ten years. As
Habbo Hotel and our company Sulake were founded almost exactly ten years ago and we’ve worked our
way to the top during this time, we are of course expecting to be on many of these lists!
One recent media that did a tops & flops list was
Kauppalehti, the leading business daily in
our home country Finland. Among their Finnish tops for the decade were: the coming of the
Euro currency,
Linux OS, the
internet,
Google,
China,
Marimekko, and of course
Habbo Hotel! The justification for our
spot was the internationalization of the product and huge growth in users, i.e. success in
general.
On the flip side, among the Finnish flops were (just mentioning a few not so local ones):
the IT bubble,
Y2K,
George W. Bush, and the
decline in
alcohol taxation.
Unfortunately the story seems not to be posted online, so can’t link to it here ☹