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Michał Kiciński. Michał Dawid Kiciński (ur. 1974 r.) – polski przedsiębiorca, współzałożyciel (obok Marcina Iwińskiego) spółki CD Projekt . Odszedł z przedsiębiorstwa, ale jest współwłaścicielem 9,99% akcji (dane z listopada 2023 r.) [1] .
- A Teenage Entrepreneur in Communist Poland
- Building A Global Games Developer
- The Price For Success
- The Life-Changing Power of Meditation
- How Mudita Was Born
- Building A Strong Team
Earning money felt good so I came up with a new idea. I started to copy games onto cartridges and sell them. Copyright didn’t exist in Poland at that time but there was a big computer market and a great demand. In high school I was spending every weekend selling games and getting further and further into the world of gaming. I also met Marcin Iwińs...
In 1994, at the age of 20 we founded our company CD Projekt. The competition was growing and we always tried to be a few steps ahead. We were the first to release local versions with dubbing of games such as Ace Ventura or Baldur’s Gate. Those who know a bit about this field will recall these titles with nostalgia. But it wasn’t the end of our ambi...
However, it came at a high cost. It was the product of an unbelievable amount of effort and stress. The economic crisis in 2009 hit us hard and almost destroyed what we had been building. We were struggling in order not to close the company, we were sadly forced to fire a lot of brilliant people, it was a nightmare. I was under constant pressure an...
During the flight I read that we’re going for a 10 day long course of meditation, where you sleep in separate rooms, wake up at 4 AM and meditate for 10 hours. I thought it was crazy but decided to follow the instructions precisely. This is how a new chapter started for me. Those 10 days opened my eyes to a completely new way of thinking and living...
This was just the beginning. My dream was to apply the values I believe into the world of new technologies. One of the biggest problems of the modern world, that I saw, was that new technology became inhuman. It has two sides and sometimes we only start to notice the darker one after some time. In the beginning, we are fascinated by technology and ...
I started to gather a team and was really lucky to meet Tomek and Łukasz, founders of a venture building company App’n’roll. Great and talented people who believed in this dream. They are helping to make it come true. We’re progressing very fast and soon, we will start selling our first mobile phone. We named this company after the buddhist word Mu...
Dec 20, 2020 · Today Michał Kiciński helps run Mudita, a hardware company that designed a simple, high-end smartphone alternative to help those suffering from an “overflow of information” and “addictive ...
CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwiński in 2011 Former logo that was used until 2014. CD Projekt was founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński. [10] According to Iwiński, although he enjoyed playing video games as a child they were scarce in then-communist Poland.
Dec 14, 2020 · Between January and December 4, Cyberpunk 2077 hype drove up the share price of Warsaw-listed CD Projekt by more than 50% making company cofounders Michał Kiciński (who left in 2013) and Marcin ...
Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński, a pair of high school friends who shared a passion for games, believed so. It was an era of transformation, with the Polish economy taking on an entirely new shape. Trade activities spilled out into the streets, bazaars and open-air markets. Marcin and Michał, both avid gamers, sought access to new games.
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Nov 29, 2018 · It all started with Michał Kiciński, who knows exactly what the struggle and the glory of building a tech company from a scratch is like. He previously founded CD Projekt , which evolved from two friends selling games at a local fair into a global computer game developer, with an estimated worth of 5 billion dollars and hits such as ‘The Witcher’ saga.
