The Fortnite Business Model

How Epic Games built a multibillion-dollar empire with a free product.

Delaney Jaye
The Startup
Published in
6 min readSep 5, 2019

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Fortnite launched in the summer of 2017, and in roughly two years has amassed over a quarter of a billion users. The most surprising part of this multi-billion dollar empire is that the main product, the game itself, is completely free.

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