Meghan Hamme

A big chunk of my success, I think, is actually listening. I think one of the biggest things in business that tends to get overlooked, especially in partnership management, is we always have a thought process or an agenda. Mine is really not that. It's nice to keep it in the back of your head, but really listening to what your partners need is what makes you most successful. When you're able to listen to what they're looking for, you can best offer options to them. It's really not always about what you want, but how do you make what you have work for them. So I think listening has been the biggest skill to attribute to that.

I had a friend who took over at a company as a CEO, and it was very out of her scope of what her previous roles had been, or at least the types of companies she had worked at. I said, how did you learn so much getting into your role? And she said to me, I don't expect to be the subject matter expert on everything. I surround myself with people that are experts, and that's how I continue to learn. So I think it's really about creating a strong network that you can always be learning from, whether that's at the current company that you're at, or the people that you continue to talk to throughout your career. We try so hard to do it all, but you don't have to do it all. You know what your strengths are, and how do you lean into that and fill the void elsewhere with people that really are the other experts.

Don't be afraid to let your voice be heard. I know as a woman coming up, really in any industry, prior to this I was in ad tech, I was always afraid to raise my hand and sound like I was afraid of sounding stupid, or not knowing the answers to everything, or asking a dumb question. There are no dumb questions, there are just people that aren't forward-thinking, and I think it's always good to get everyone on the same page, so don't be afraid to let your voice be heard.

The biggest challenge would probably be that AI is becoming a bigger topic of conversation in the game space right now, especially online. And I think the tough part is a lot of people follow the news, but there's a lot of education that can go along with it that not everyone takes the time to learn about, so that's been a bit of a challenge. But the biggest opportunity would be continuing to educate and provide information to partners, to really anyone in the ecosystem, to best understand how you're able to utilize games or different types of content to really drive people, honestly, even to change their behaviors. I think the biggest challenge we see with online nowadays is everyone kind of goes down doom scroll holes on any platform, so how do we bring people to do something that challenges their brain, but in a healthier way? And I think that's something that we're able to help different online companies provide to users.

The biggest values are just, if you say you're gonna do it, you follow through with it. We can commit to a lot of things, we can raise our hands for a lot of things, but when you really want to show your value, it's putting in the time and effort to those items, and really giving it your all. So I think that's what really matters to me most - follow-through and commitment.