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Co-Founder of PopCap John Vechey explains his evolution from start-up entrepreneur to the founder of a large company recently sold to Electronic Arts.

John Vechey, co-founder of PopCap Games, talks about the importance of trusting employees that are smarter than you at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference. What happens when you disagree with the person you've appointed to lead your company

John Vechey, co-founder of Seattle-based games maker PopCap Games, just sold his company to Electronic Arts for just under a billion dollars, so you might think he doesn't have to fret about success any longer. But according to Vechey, it's not success that CEOs need to be concerned about, but how they will deal with that success once it comes their way. Vechey, always humble, shared with our Inc.

John Vechey, a college dropout, turned his passion for video games into a company called PopCap, which was sold this summer for about $750 million. But for Vechey, the process of selling was hardly just fun and games. Fourteen years ago, John Vechey dropped out of college to build a video game—but ended up building a video game empire.