Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
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#2So that one who didn't want to move to the new employer was really the one holding the company together!
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#3Is there anywhere a list of investors who called Zynga a "big deal" two-three years earlier?
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#4Could be good to hear from Dan Porter again.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...
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#5 | "but most of my team had new jobs lined up
| by the time they left the building anyway."
Edit: To be clear, having 'a job lined up' to me means that they already at least have an offer, rather than just a bunch of emails from recruiters and/or people looking to hire them. It seems really amazing to go from laid off to "have a job offer" in an afternoon. I could definitely see laid-off-to-interviews-lined-up in an afternoon though. Am I being too specific in my reading of this?
Re: Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M
#6So that one who didn't want to move to the new employer was really the one holding the company together!
Are you referencing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760583
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#7| "but most of my team had new jobs lined up | by the time they left the building anyway." I've never experienced this. Does this mean that they were already looking, or that they were able to immediately call someone up and get a job offer on-demand? Edit: To be clear, having 'a job lined up' to me means that they already at least have an offer, rather than just a bunch of emails from recruiters and/or people lookin…
If it's anything like San Francisco, once word spreads that a gaming company is shuttering, there's pretty much a "land grab" from the other local companies for talent.
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#8I was surprised to hear 3000 people were making those Zynga games. Doing what exactly? Pls I'm genuinely curious.
These social games seems so lame to me that I can't think of any reason why someone will even think of building a public company on top of it. You simply cannot meet investors' quarterly demand when your success is built on being "flavour of the month" business model.
I don't have anything wrong against Zynga or its founder and so I don't wish them failure but this should have come as a common sense that they should have stayed private and stayed lean (both in taking VC funding and the number of employees)
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#9| "but most of my team had new jobs lined up | by the time they left the building anyway." I've never experienced this. Does this mean that they were already looking, or that they were able to immediately call someone up and get a job offer on-demand? Edit: To be clear, having 'a job lined up' to me means that they already at least have an offer, rather than just a bunch of emails from recruiters and/or people lookin…
You'd be surprised at how many startups are hiring in NYC: http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc
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#10Wow. I thought Zynga just shut down its other studios to focus on mobile. Now they shut down one of their mobile studios?