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The async advantage. Robert Lenzhofer on eliminating meetings and building deep work.

Robert Lenzhofer has been in real-money and free-to-play gaming since bwin in 2001 and now runs Hölle Games. He made the case that asynchronous communication is becoming a cornerstone of high-performing teams: the hidden cost of meetings and real-time chat, and how async habits create space for deeper work, clearer decisions and a genuine level playing field.

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Robert Lenzhofer, Co-founder and CEO, Hölle Games

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    “It is so refreshing to finally see and hear someone openly talk about the real challenges of leading a business. This is the kind of stuff you can't get at any conference.”
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    About the speaker

    Robert Lenzhofer has been involved in free-to-play and real-money gaming for 20 years. Starting at bwin in Vienna in 2001, he was responsible for the launch of bwin Casino and bwin Poker. He moved to Berlin in 2010 to head product development at Crowdpark, a venture-funded social betting company, and later co-founded Crowdbet, taking prediction market technology into real-money sports betting. In 2015 he co-founded Glück Games, a lottery game supplier that merged with Gamevy in 2018 to become g.games, with multi-year contracts with state lotteries in Italy, Norway, Turkey, Denmark and beyond. Today Robert is Co-founder and CEO of Hölle Games, an ISO 27001 certified Made in Germany video slots company with a remote gaming server business, hinterzimmer.io.

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    More from RobertRobert Lenzhofer: full profile  ·  Robert Lenzhofer on the iGaming Leader podcast

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