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
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Chairman/founder, . Partner/Reinvent Capital. Passionate product maker, biker, surfer. Father of two amazing girls, one cute boy and one new baby boy!
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What pct of the time do you think uber is on time?
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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.
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A big reason 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👇
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What motivates nytimes to avoid calling this fraud. Its like saying madhoff was ruined by investors all demanding money back at the same time.
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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.
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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!
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While casting shade on 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.
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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 which is sending me 2-3 emails a day wishing me well.
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Brilliant points by Peter Thiel. Comparing CA to Saudi. Tech replacing oil as $$ enabler.
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So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities !?
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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.
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JUST IN: Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX executives donated $70 million to US politicians for midterm elections, weeks before filing for bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports.
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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.
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Brilliant take by which is making me question my own stance on anti semitism. Im against cancelling anyone.
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From 1994 to 2004, when assault weapons were banned, mass shootings decreased by 70%.
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These comments say it all.
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If Chappelle wasn’t tapping into anti-Semitic tropes it’s weird how my notifications are flooded with Jew-haters today
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Everyone knows Kanye is nuts. Chappelle posits himself as a teller of difficult truths. It's worse.
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That Dave Chappelle SNL monologue probably did more to normalize anti-Semitism than anything Kanye said
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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.
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Wow. Confirms that shark tank isnt the place to learn business judgement.
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Last month, Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary said "if there's ever a place I could be that I'm not gonna get in trouble, it's gonna be at FTX."
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The Founder of Zynga, , on Web3 Gaming
hackernoon.com/the-founder-of
By via and
#BLOCKCHAIN #NFT #PlayToEarn
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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.
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"VC has ceased to be the funder of the future, and instead has become a funder of features, widgets, irrelevances."
Peter Thiel / Founders Fund
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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.
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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.
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My take on web3 and block chain gaming oppty. A lot like social gaming in 2007.
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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 #GBSummit venturebeat.com/games/why-mark via @GamesBeat
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Watching 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.
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Well said…
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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. piratewires.com/p/elon-musk-ha
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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
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This is just about subsidizing Lyft. The state has already required them to convert to e cars by 2030. So this is just about who pays for it.
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Opinion: Lyft is sponsoring a climate tax on high earners in California to fund new vehicles and bail out its drivers on.ft.com/3RQaArh
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Hmm, maybe inflation will follow printing more money in the past 5 years than in all US history?
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Can't stop staring at the m1 money supply graph...
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
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This is incredible
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Amazing to see Sfchron with a good, smart piece for once!
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