UK Videogame Boss’s Wealth Cut by £40 Million Weeks Before Exit
- Shares of ‘Worms’-maker Team17 fall 42% after profit warning
- Debbie Bestwick MBE owns 30 million shares in company
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British videogame entrepreneur Debbie Bestwick saw the value of her stake in Team17 Group Plc drop by £40 million ($50.2 million) on Friday, weeks before her departure from the company she co-founded three decades ago.
Shares in the firm behind the 1990s smash-hit ‘Worms’ tumbled by 42% after it said in a statement that some titles were not performing as expected and that it had been too slow to address “overspending” on some projects.