Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
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Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
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Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#2Looks like Pincus is staying around though, which seems odd. If the board is unhappy with his performance (and rightfully so), wouldn't starting fresh be a better move?
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#3Looks like Pincus is staying around though, which seems odd. If the board is unhappy with his performance (and rightfully so), wouldn't starting fresh be a better move?
Did you read the part where it stated Mark Pincus has a 61% voting control in Zynga?
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#4Looks like Pincus is staying around though, which seems odd. If the board is unhappy with his performance (and rightfully so), wouldn't starting fresh be a better move?
If you have very little data about a situation, and then start reasoning using only that bit of data, it's very likely you'll get a different result from those who have hundreds of times more data.
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#5Looks like Pincus is staying around though, which seems odd. If the board is unhappy with his performance (and rightfully so), wouldn't starting fresh be a better move?
Pincus already cashed out and has enough money to live a lavish, comfortable lifestyle. Having someone else take on the task of turning around a publicly held company on a day to day basis is probably very appealing to him. Not to mention, Wall Street likes seeing this type of behavior from companies performing poorly.
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#6Looks like Pincus is staying around though, which seems odd. If the board is unhappy with his performance (and rightfully so), wouldn't starting fresh be a better move?
Even in a somewhat controversial/borderline-hostile CEO replacement by the board, the ex-CEO often retains some sort of position in the company (say, a seat on the Board)
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#7Great hire for Zynga. Don is hugely respected at Microsoft and was actually tipeed to be a potential Ballmer successor. Big loss for Microsoft.
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#8With what little info we have, this seems actually like a good move. Part of Zynga's core problem is that their games are frequently more psycological tweakery than legitimately rewarding or fun.
Importing someone who comes from "real" gaming seems like a good move in this regard. Hopefully this means Zynga intends to move towards "fun games with microtransactions" and away from "pretty one-armed bandits with microtransactions".
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#9Great hire for Zynga. Don is hugely respected at Microsoft and was actually tipeed to be a potential Ballmer successor. Big loss for Microsoft.
Interesting. It seems a lot of "potential Ballmer successors" have been let go from Microsoft in the past few years, from Ray Ozzie to Sinofsky, and now this one, too.
I wonder what this means for Zynga - more DRM?
Re: Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick As New CEO
#10Great hire for Zynga. Don is hugely respected at Microsoft and was actually tipeed to be a potential Ballmer successor. Big loss for Microsoft.
Interesting. It seems a lot of "potential Ballmer successors" have been let go from Microsoft in the past few years, from Ray Ozzie to Sinofsky, and now this one, too. I wonder what this means for Zynga - more DRM?
I don't this in the same vein. I think Don was well-liked all around.