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Chairman/founder, @zynga . 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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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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I’m excited that Zynga today announced a plan to merge with Take-Two. This has been an amazing 15 year journey. I'd like to share thoughts as I reflect, and why I remain so bullish on gaming. 1/x
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My favorite Tony Hsieh memory was watching him beat us all breezily in poker and then give our money to the dealers and servers as tips. I will miss his quiet smiling confidence.
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Play 2 earn and play 2 win is next evolution of freemium.
Player owned and directed economies could change games and other industries forever. Cant wait!
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This is scary. The fact the sfusd would allow this in the hallways and chanting ‘from the rivers to the sea’ which means wipe out Israel.
And here's a video from Balboa High School students in San Francisco...
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Another reminder SF is now to the internet what Detroit is to cars, more of a monument to past glory than of future potential.
In Q1 2019, 39% of Stripe's hiring was outside Bay Area and Seattle. Last quarter, it was 74%. I think the rate at which tech industry is going global is still under-appreciated, and that this will be a big tailwind for the world over the next decade.
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America should invest $10 trillion in educating and training our people over next 10 years. People are our greatest resource.
#wtfagenda
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Rising Dem star Tim Ryan splits with party, endorses corporate tax cuts
@TimRyan
#wtfagenda
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Wow. Im blocked by paul graham and i didnt even do anything. Maybe too much pro Israel content.
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BREAKING: Hamas just fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. This wont be NYT headline tomorrow. How would we respond if Mexican drug cartel fired rockets into Texas daily?
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The real innovation of FarmVille was in making games accessible to busy adults, giving them a place to invest and express themselves and be seen by people in their lives as creative. People thought of FarmVille as a sort of Etch-a-Sketch. 2/x
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@MattHaneySF
@jonoringer
Im happy to talk and share ideas but its not clear you and sf want tech any more. It appears to now be the least welcoming city. Theres no way i would house another startup in sf.
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MP: hey mom, where in Russia did our family come from?
Mom: pretty sure Kiev. Why?
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It was the first game at scale that leveraged big data, and almost everything inside the game was tested and optimized. FarmVille became a training ground for a generation of entrepreneurs and product managers. 3/x
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My rule of thumb for entrepreneurs. Your Instincts are right 95% of the time, your ideas 25%. Fall in love with instincts. Kill ideas often
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I am so grateful for the amazing
@zynga
team behind
#FarmVille
, and the hundreds of millions of FarmVille players over the years. 16/x
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@FrancisSuarez
FrancisSuarez ive been in miami all week and no pings from you. I guess ill go back to sf:(
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Too bad sf is no longer interested in tech and innovation. Kudos to miami. Both cities deserve whats coming.
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Speaking the truth about prop C which i called out at the time as the dumbest move a city has ever voted for. Zynga sold its building and then left SF completely during the pandemic like many other tech companies. Our CEO was a 5th generation SF native and said forget this.
Doom Loop
Covid didn’t catalyze San Francisco’s doom loop, San Francisco voted for it.
Checking in on Prop C(atastrophe). Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle produced two remarkable stories concerning Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. First, the Chronicle reported, due to San…
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Props to
@Jason
@chamath
@DavidSacks
and
@friedberg
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Your ‘all in’ podcast is bold, ballsy and entertaining…kind of larry david meets silicon valley (with multiple larrys)!
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cancelling my nytimes too. they say 250 israelis killed. more at the concert alone. they dont show any morality lense or even report all the facts. 750 dead so far.
Just canceled my
@nytimes
subscription. Shockingly biased coverage on the front page right now. All photos of damage or injury are Palestinian, and photos representing Israel are of tanks, the iron dome, and people hiding safely.
Zero mention of the kidnapping, rape, and murder…
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I couldn’t capture all of my thoughts on Twitter, so I wrote a longer form of this in a post over at medium. . /end
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this professor should be charged with a hate crime and barred from teaching.
its not ever ok to tell a Jew or Palestinian or Muslim or Woman to go stand in the corner in shame and punishment for any reason. not fucking ever.
I was waiting to post this until it was confirmed by multiple sources I trust (that are
@Stanford
)
Just read this. Hopefully widely reported on tomorrow
These are 1930s vibes
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how is it possible that Stanford has only suspended this teacher and not fired him? if he had told any other minority group to go stand in the corner, he’d be fired and denounced instantly.
the only group the woke left wont stand up for are Jews and Israelis are even worse.
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Is anyone else bothered that politicians can spam our phones while its a federal crime for anyone else?
Remind me why this isnt clear corruption? Why do they live by diff rules?
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These idiots on the BOS do not represent SF. First, theres no reason for SF to pass resolutions about Israel. Second this is deeply anti Semitic as it fails to mention Hamas terrorism, Israel’s right to defend itself and the fact that Hamas violated the cease fire on Oct 7.
SAN FRANCISCO JUST VOTED 8-3 IN SUPPORT OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION!!!
It’s time for other cities to follow. ✊
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FarmVille demonstrated that a game could be a living, always-on service that could deliver daily surprise and delight, similar to a favorite TV series. Games could also connect groups of people and bring them closer together. 14/x
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A+ interview by
@DavidSacks
on
@elonmusk
and
@Twitter
Im guessing the company burns $800m a yr on stock based comp alone.
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Prop c is the dumbest, least thought out prop ever. Please get the facts and vote no. Then lets all focus on real solutions for sf.
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Im embarrassed to be an alumn of Penn and Harvard but hopeful they will fire their presidents and afford all students equal protection and inclusion. DEI is being proven as bs selective concept to be interpreted by the left as they choose.
Safety first on campus. Except for Jews.
The Free Press's
@SulkinMaya
on the hypocrisy of the college presidents.
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this is just fucking insane. these people are so clueless yet we all know the dangers of ignoring them. theyre cheering that *hipsters* were caught in the desert. wtf. wtf. wtf.
Openly laughing and cheering at a mass execution at a musical festival
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In 2008, Happy Farm reached 20+ million daily active users, setting off a wave of competition from game developers, and numerous farming games began to hit the market. 4/x.
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Zynga was named after my dog Zinga; Nzinga was an African warrior princess. 3/x
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FarmVille sparked a new category of “invest-and-express” games, where players could invest time and express themselves to friends and family. Busy adults, especially women, saw that games could have a valuable place in their lives and offer you more than empty calories. 13/x
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I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled | PetaPixel
Nyc was fixed. SF can be too but we need to start with intellectual honesty.
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In May 2009, we acquired MyMiniLife, and pivoted its four brilliant engineers (Amitt Mahajan, Joel Poloney, Luke Rajlich, and Sizhao Zao Yang) to a farm game. Mark Skaggs, a longtime RTS game exec producer who was running Mafia Wars, lead the team along with David Gray 6/x
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Facebook had just opened the feed to app developers, and Zuck asked me to send him all the content we had, saying FB would filter out what it didn’t want to show. FarmVille became the first major game to leverage the news feed as an extension of the core game. 11/x
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On June 19, 2009 at 8pm, Zynga launched FarmVille. It was an immediate viral hit and reached 1m DAUs by the end of its first week. 12/x
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On February 6, 2009, FarmTown reached 1 million DAU on Facebook. Farm Town combined the moving maps from MyFarm with avatars in Zynga’s YoVille. I wrote the date on the wall, and said we need to count the days until we are in the market with our own game. 5/x
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Why dont they turn off the mikes for whomever isnt speaking? This debate problem is so easily solved.
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Huge respect for
@marissamayer
for leading
@Yahoo
with courage and heart. Its easier to criticize than solve innovate or lead.
#marissafan
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FarmVille tapped into the cultural zeitgeist in a way that few games had at the time. 15/x .
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I showed our iPhone Zynga Poker game to Steve Jobs, and pitched him on allowing in app purchase. He loved the game but said IAPs were a “stupid idea.” (He did get pretty much everything else right :) 8/x
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I started Zynga in Jan ‘07 to build a social poker game for Facebook (which had 15m users). We put real people around a table to play with real friends. We launched five months later; it quickly ballooned into the world’s largest free poker game. 2/x
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We had learned the importance of Facebook profile pictures from Zynga Poker. Players wanted to see their friends and do things together. We were also inspired by the friend bar in Playfish’s Restaurant City. 8/x
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We built Zynga on many principles: Invest & Express. Forever Franchises. Proven, Better, New. Surprise & Delight. Innovate on social game mechanics. Grow through D365 retention not virality. Be a CEO. Treat engineering days like gold. 9/x
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@elonmusk
@FedorovMykhailo
Elon for president. Oh wait hes more effective running spacex and tesla.
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The team engineered a nice feeling core loop of plow/plant/harvest and allowed players to visit and like each other’s farm designs. (We promoted some of our favorite designs in the game). 10/x
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Together they invented so many things, but most importantly for Zynga and our industry was making surprise and delight the core product focus. 7/x
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Wow! 1 million pro israel supporters!! Brazil!!
More than a MILLION people show up for a Pro-
#Israel
demonstration in Brazil today.
#StandWithIsrael
#AmYisraelChai
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@jonoringer
Maybe someone can show this to
@MattHaneySF
who still believes sf is doing great with tech workers.
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@jillruthcarlson
Ive always believed that if you pick the right body of water the first boat doesnt matter!
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sunday intellectual honesty.
the NYC Dem Socialists are actually rallying today to support the Palestinians right to *resist*. it doesnt matter what you think of Israel. the DSA is saying any atrocity is ok if its resistance. any org that normalizes intentional mass murder is…
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@MattHaneySF
@jonoringer
But this study shows 35 pct loss in tech jobs. Your slides presented a different story which made no sense based on what were all seeing.
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Best description of NFTs and virtual goods!
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This captures the deep hypocrisy in the DEI debate. Actually defending Claudine Gay and saying for white men failure is celebrated, that plagiarism was acceptable failure for the president of Harvard.
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@peteskomoroch
I dont think i can consume any more of this. Its just too aggravating. Where is the accountability to anyone?
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The new risk board. Clearly late in the game. Down to two players unless someone flips the board.
http://t.co/2GTapF4G3y”
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The team sat in an alcove by my office. I met w/ them daily and focused on building the next evolution of social farm simulation. We kept it simple: better crop art, math, and remove the stranger-danger marketplace. We also found subtle ways to make it easier to play. 9/x
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@TEDchris
id point out that the majority of Palestinians elected Hamas who has a stated mission of genocide.
the bigger moral question is why we as Americans hold Israel to a different standard. our response to 9/11 was beyond anything we will see or condone from Israel. Both blatant…
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@Jason
@SamHarrisOrg
@elonmusk
Do you guys have a policy or you just decide case by case who is too evil? Why is Trump yes and Alex jones no? Is this about taste or popularity?
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Props!
It makes sense to move startups to miami before you get too big.
Kudos to
@FrancisSuarez
for being the only big city mayor to welcome tech and growth!
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I would love to hear
@chesaboudin
respond to
@DavidSacks
and his plan to make sf streets safe.
Letter invites
@chesaboudin
and
@DavidSacks
to a conversation on the topic of Crime and Criminal Justice. You can pledge a donation to this campaign to help make the conversation happen. Proceeds go to charity if Chesa and David accept the invitation
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Bravo
@pmarca
!! Fuck yes to every point. Thanks for putting into beautiful words what we all feel.
Our purpose is to create these Internet Treasures. Products people cant remember life before or imagine life without.
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto -- please read and Ask Me Anything! Post questions as replies to this xeet.
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I started playing social games as a kid (favs were Charades, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, Poker) My sisters were even more competitive than me, which gave me a strong sense that digital games should be designed for everyone–not just 25 y/o guys. 4/x
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The key was to make games accessible and social. I thought my mom and sisters would love the guilds in WoW, but knew they would never endure the time and complexity. Games were more fun to play w/ friends and family, but hard to get them in the same place/time 5/x.
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Awesome to see
@a16z
go all in on gaming to take web3 to mass market.
We're backed by amazing founders and luminaries from the industry
Thank you
@DavidBaszucki
/ Roblox,
@jasoncitron
/ Discord,
@MarcMerrill
/ Riot,
@mikemorhaime
/ Blizzard,
@kevinlin
/ Twitch,
@markpinc
/ Zynga, and many others
So excited to work with you to build the future
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Bing Gordon has predicted that there will be at least 5 game cos in the West w/ mkt caps > $100 billion. In my view, Zynga & Take-Two creates a company w/ the scale to be one of those leaders. 11/x
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Despite the chron and examiner calling this a republican conspiracy the actual citizens of sf have said no to a far left DA who chose social experiments over safety and accountability.
The voters have spoken AGAIN. We demand COMPETENCE in San Francisco.
We will build a city that works for everyone.
❤️ 🌉
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I just published “What will our players thank us for?”
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We’re seeing games expand in every direction from hyper casual to entire persistent worlds. I believe this company will have the franchises & scale to lead in every category. 12/x
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This is the one speach everyone must hear. Anti zionism is the new mutation of anti semitism. Its a virus that threatens everyone not just its first victims, the jews.
Never Again - is right NOW.
What I said at the UN - about current lethal strain of ever-mutating
#antisemitism
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Silence is…
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@paddycosgrave
its disappointing that you paint moral equivalence between Hamas, a terrorist org and Israel. Hamas is not fighting for freedom, only for destruction.
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@TeslaMotors
auto pilot is amazing. Feels like were touching the future. Awe and gratitude for
@elonmusk
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Im embarassed by anyone in our tech community who collaborates with and normalizes this admin.
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Deep truth in product making
Jony Ive: “Ideas are always fragile”
“Ideas—by definition—are always fragile. If they were resolved, they wouldn’t be ideas. They would be products that were ready to ship.”
The legendary Apple designer continues:
“I’ve come to learn that you have to make an extraordinary…
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