Magazine: Animoca was a successful mobile game company, with 10 million downloads and several apps in the top 10 on the Apple App Store. Then all of a sudden you got kicked out of the shop in 2012. How did that change your opinion of big tech?

Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca: The fact that platforms could become as powerful as they once were (App Store, Google Play, Facebook, you name it) took many of us by surprise. Open source had become the predominant way code was written, and it was something of a wake-up call when Apple basically decided to push the button and get rid of us.

We did not fully know the exact reasons, but there was no discussion, negotiation or process. Hundreds of people were potentially out of work and millions of customers lost…