COME PLAY WITH US
Every founder story is unique - and ours started, you guessed it, at midnight.
One late-night call. One impulsive plane ticket. Six weeks after Mimi and Laura first spoke, they found themselves in Dallas for a week of American Mahjong - at a library, a church, a sports club, the Jewish Community Center, the Charleston Club, and multiple local venues. Two strangers on what was essentially a business blind date, united by the love for this game and a hunch that something real was here.
Back home on opposite sides of the Atlantic, the early mornings and late nights blurred together - various standing video calls a week, laptops always open, iPad at the fingertips, Mahjong tiles on the desk, building something they both truly believe in.
Laura
Armed with a Business degree and a wealth of experience across Marketing, Sales, and Human Resources, Laura is the strategic heartbeat of this project. But what truly sets her apart isn’t just her background, it’s her innate ability to bring people together. Having built and mentored diverse, international teams, she leads with genuine empathy, ensuring that every voice is valued.
Laura bridges the gap between vision and execution. She guides concepts meticulously from the very first spark of an idea all the way to a successful market launch. By beautifully balancing sharp commercial strategy with deeply people-centered leadership, Laura doesn’t just direct our business - she inspires its soul.
COO
Marketing & Sales,
Concept & Sourcing
Mimi
Our creative director with an MFA in Design & Technology, Mimi has led digital innovation at Time Inc. in New York and developed online magazine platforms for Burda in Munich, working for advertising agencies and publishing power houses alike. Her sucessful company Studio Mimicks has been creating design concepts for a wide field of amazing clients for many years. Her stunning work has been recognized with an Art Directors Award.
Mimi is a creative force, bringing brilliant expertise in design, illustration, and branding to the team. What truly sets her apart is her rare dual mastery: she seamlessly bridges the gap between technical development and visual storytelling. With this powerful combination of logical precision and artistic imagination, Mimi boldly shapes and drives our entire creative direction.
CCO Design, Illustration, Branding
LAURA'S GAME STYLE
Pizza with hot sauce. That's her fuel. In American Mahjong, she plays without blanks as she likes the puzzle hard. In business, she's our operational backbone: connections, invoices, ideas flowing through her color-coded system of Post-its and notebooks.
But Laura's real gift is her creative vision - the thread that runs through everything we do at The Midnight Mahjong Club. From our first tile design to our latest packaging, she keeps us consistent, cohesive, and unmistakably us. Chaos meets calm, spreadsheets meet beauty, and every detail feels intentional because Laura made it so.
Where we played
At the Charleston Club
An entire location dedicated to playing Mahjong! The Charleston Club in Dallas is one of the first of its kind, offers teaching events, open play, rooms for private Mahjong Parties, such as Bachelorette Mahjong Mornings and many more.
On the Road
En route Dallas we met in New York to check all the American Mahjong options in the city. It was an amazing experience explore the city, play and take in the scenery at the same time.
At the Dallas Contemporary Art Gallery
For a charity event we enjoyed playing at a museum with a life band playing in the back being just one highlight. We additionally challenged our luck off the table with buying raffles for a silent auctions, supporting a good cause.
At the Jewish Community Center
Mimi's very first and most jet lagged game ever. We got to play at a fully automated Mahjong table. What an experience.
Lunch and Mahjong pairs well
Need a break during a busy day but you are only available for the lunch break? No problem. We joined lunch Mahjong and it was fabulous!
Mimi's Modus Operandi
Diet Coke is her favourite companion, Mimi loves rainy mornings for sketching just as much as sunshine ones for early Eisbach Swimming.
Mimi is our illustrator, designer, programmer, and photographer — often all before lunch. She weaves colors and code together the same way we weave our community: connecting different pieces into something cohesive and alive. From the app interface to product photography to the art on every tile, Mimi's fingerprints are everywhere. She makes the technical feel human and the visual feel inevitable.
HOW YOU CAN PLAY
The European Mahjong Card allows players of all different languages to play together. The basics like suits, winds or dragons are the same in all languages but rules and how to set up your lines is translate in an ever growing array of languages.