Tomorrow, Zynga shuts down FarmVille on Facebook after 11 years. I wanted to share the story of how we created it and why it has played such an important role in the evolution of gaming. 1/x
It's hard to see San Francisco at the bottom of any list, but this one really hurts. It's time to look forward, do things differently, and admit that rebuilding means going in a new direction.
3/ If the concept got "funded" they would get a "pre-seed" level commitment. Enough to fund a small team (up to 5 people) for a short time (around 6 months) to get to a seed pitch to fund production
2/ To take an example, at concept teams were asked to do paper prototpying and come up with rough plans around audience, game, art style, etc.
This didn't require more than 2-3 founders that honed an idea while working their day jobs. So no funding yet
1/ New game teams were asked to match their dev milestones to VC-style funding rounds and pitch to senior leaders
Concept --> Pre-Production --> Production --> Soft Launch --> Launch --> Live Ops
Bootstrap --> Angel/Pre-seed --> Seed --> Series A --> Series B --> Growth
produced so many strong games founders & execs is bc game teams were trained to act like startups
1. New teams had to raise money VC style
2. Monthly board meetings for accountability
3. Outsized rewards for success
Here's what each tactic taught our teams👇
That… is not even remotely what caused FTX to collapse.
Apparently if you steal billions of dollars the three reporters writing the story about it will blame everything on the person who sold the worthless token before you declare bankruptcy and it goes to zero.
They are not asking for American soldiers to do the fighting – they are asking for weapons and economic assistance so they can stay in the fight.
Ukraine’s victory is our victory. God bless Ukraine!
for what he’s done, is doing, or will do, try to pause & remember that he made electric cars a normal thing in society and he commercialized space — for cargo, satellites, & people.
Count him among those who are inventing civilization’s future.
Has anyone ever analyzed the net impact of the horrible holiday spam we all get? There must be a meaningful increase in unsub and reduction in nps. Particularly hate
Apple takes a 30% tax from app developers who make over $1 million through the App Store on an annual basis.
Apple's App Store is the equivalent to a 30% tax on the Internet.
JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX executives donated $70 million to US politicians for midterm elections, weeks before filing for bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports.
The FTX story just gets wilder.
Earlier this year, SBF invested $11.5m in Farmington State Bank in Washington St. (nearly double the bank’s value).
It’s the 26th smallest bank in the US. It serves a town of 146 people. Has only 3 employees. And looks like my parent’s garage.
Its disturbing for a major comedian on snl to normalize kanye’s anti semitism by saying: he just said out loud what we all know to be true. Not crazy to think it. Crazy to say it.
Colorado friends. Remember to vote yes on prop 122 to legalize plant medicines.
California friends. Vote no on prop 30 which adds more taxes to subsidize lyft’s required move to electric.
Is anyone else bothered that a congress woman is publicly attacking a pvt citizen who hasnt broken any law? Wtf is this? Isnt this a free country? This feels par with Trump. Just low gutter bs.
One guy’s business plan for a $44 billion over-leveraged purchase is apparently to run around and individually ask people for $8.
Remember that next time you question yourself or your qualifications.
Great to have Mark Pincus back after more than a decade. Why Mark Pincus sold Zynga for $12.7B and still has unfinished business with blockchain games #Zynga#TakeTwo#GBSummithttps://venturebeat.com/games/why-mark-pincus-sold-zynga-for-12-7b-and-still-has-unfinished-business-with-blockchain-games/… via @GamesBeat
to monetize and grow twitter is stick to Proven, Better, New framework and dont waste any time on new ideas until youve exhausted all proven. Wechatof the West has already failed many times. At least study why first.
US and Holocaust is a reminder of our a moral obligation to maintain open borders and always accept immigrants. Both parties are complicit in our closed borders and the millions we could have saved.
elon musk has taken twitter: day zero. the future of the company, the future of the country, and the future of the one party state. https://piratewires.com/p/elon-musk-has-taken-twitter-day-zero…
calling out that Prop 30 is just corp welfare for Lyft disguised as climate protection. Corporations shouldnt be allowed to fund political referendums. Wtf!
Vote NO on Prop 30. It is NOT pro environment. It is more sad wedge politics by a single company (Lyft) trying to improve their bottom line at the cost of CA small business, families and schools. Driving businesses and innovators out of CA hurts us all. @theallinpod