Xtreme Gammoners, 

As many of you know, I personally acquired XG earlier this year with the idea of breathing new life into my favorite app. With building now at full steam, it's now time for us to find someone who can lead XG through its coming adventures.

This is an on the ground floor “re-founder”/CEO we’re looking for. Below are some of the attributes we’re seeking in our new leader:

• Loves backgammon and/or casual gaming nerd/geek

• Affinity or love affair with discrete mathematics, game theory, or neural networks

• Technical background, engineering and/or product management

• Polymath, multi-domain creative problem solver

• Good commercial instincts. Not afraid of negotiating or forging partnerships

• Prolific work ethic. Obsessed with working harder, longer and smarter because that’s what it takes to win.

Backgammon is having a moment right now … iykyk… social gaming, next-gen training, digitizing physical game play and promoting backgammon lifestyle are all on the table.  We’re looking for someone who wants to be a part of that moment and bend the world towards it. 

I am very passionate about the game and its future, and the person we bring in as CEO will be a thought partner and partner in crime for making this project special. 

Email us at - theone@extremegammon.com and tell us why you’re The One.

Thanks for reading and I’m looking forward to connecting soon 🙂

Travis

P.S. For those that may not be up for CEO-life, we’re always hiring engineers - engineers@extremegammon.com - inquire within.

Dear eXtreme Gammon & GammonSite Players,

We have some exciting news! After 25 years, it is time for us to pass the torch to someone else. Travis Kalanick, yes the Uber founder, has purchased Gammonsite and eXtreme Gammon and will take over our backgammon products (he has a message to the community below)

Over the last year or so we looked for the right partner to infuse new energy into GammonSite and eXtreme Gammon while carrying the torch of growing the Backgammon community more broadly. Travis, a computer scientist by training, has been a passionate backgammon player for many years and has begun familiarizing himself with the deep math and machine learning techniques to push the engine and the game forward. We are confident he and his team are the right fit.

We will retain a small piece of ownership in eXtreme Gammon andwill always have a lot of heart for everything we built over the years.

We want to thank our many GammonSite host volunteers, both current and past, for the exciting tournaments and leagues that provided the players with many hours of fun.

GammonSite also wants to thank the players who have played and supported this site over the years. We have made many life-long friends here. To those who have passed on, we thank you and remember the fun you brought to our site.

Thank you,

Michelle (Mikki) and Xavier (XKlibur) Dufaure de Citres

Statement from Travis:

Appreciate the note Xavier. I've been a huge fan of XG since I first found your app many years ago. I have quite the competitive tendencies,and XG was responsible for training me up from a beginner to advanced player(PR of 10.3). I also give XG credit for helping me build out my personal vintage arcade game room - more than half of my arcade games were the result of winning backgammon bets with friends :)

That said, being a backgammon nerd is a few rungs down the ladder from the elite backgammoners that make the XG community the best in the world. And it all started with the eXtreme passion that Xavier and Michelle put into the product and everything XG. I have a deep respect for the entrepreneurs that bring joy and excellence to our world and hope to live up to XG's namesake.

So I will be picking up the XG torch focusing on 4 pillars:powering perfection, betting basics, core community, and developer ecosystem.We're going to start with the first, advancing the game engine with modern AI techniques and infrastructure. My hope is we can discover new optimal moves and patterns - Xavier is skeptical, but I'm taking that as a challenge. This will be the foundation for everything else we do but more importantly for powering next generation training tools for enthusiasts and professionals alike.

To get started, I'm looking for generalist engineerspassionate about backgammon and gaming generally, excited to learn new domains. Specific skills in ML, neural networking, complex statistical modeling, and gaming mathematics are a major plus. No one can be all things, so super smart explorers and adventurers are preferred. Please hit me up at travis@extremegammon.com

Thanks and see you on the boards!

Travis