He’ll hit a decade working at Niantic even sooner – when he began coding the building blocks of Pokémon Go from an office in Washington, as Niantic scrambled to stay in business.
“It’s not only healthy, but it’s growing,” Wu says of the game now.
“One thing that’s deeply satisfying to me is that, during [this year’s] Go Tour, in-person raiding nearly doubled compared to last Go Tour,” Wu reveals.
How much does someone who built the foundations of Pokémon Go still play the game, eight years on?