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Australian entrepreneur’s startup company Tapulous Acquired by Disney for millions of dollars

Andrew Lacy, co-founder of startup company Tapulous. Photo: Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz

Australian entrepreneur, Andrew Lacy from Melbourne living in Silicon Valley has struck gold with his Tap Tap Revenge mobile music games after Disney acquired his startup company. Tap Tap Revenge is the most popular game series on the App Store, with over 35 million downloads and over billion songs played.
Andrew Lacy who founded the company Tapulous with Bart Decrem in 2008 will join Disney as a senior VP on its mobile application development team. The company’s sales was $US 1 million a month in December 2009.