Jamie Thomson is CEO of Vulcan Forged, a blockchain gaming studio and NFT marketplace. He started the company as a bootstrapped venture with minimal resources and grew it into an organization with more than 100 employees and a community exceeding 100,000 members, learning early on to recognize his own limitations in areas like project management and hiring and delegating those functions to specialists.
Thomson has become a vocal advocate for collaboration over competition in the fast-moving blockchain space, regularly mentoring newer founders entering the industry. He stresses the importance of setting clear culture and ethical standards from a company's earliest days, before growth makes those boundaries harder to establish.
His plans for Vulcan Forged extend beyond gaming into MetaScapes, a platform that lets users build custom virtual worlds on the company's underlying technology, reflecting his broader ambition to position the studio as a developer-focused player in blockchain innovation.
