Silicon Valley OG shares crazy stories from Zynga early days + 3 business ideas
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And they said Well you should couldn't confuse revenue for success. So I said, Well you guys shouldn't confuse a lack revenue for Sisassi either. And then they got like Kind of off that. Dude, this meeting it goes in like the Silicon Valley Autistic Hall of Fame. I feel like I could rule the world and know I could be what I want to. I'm putting my all in it like my day song on the road, let's travel to the street. What's up? We got our friend C here, founder of Runway back in the day, built a company, sold it to Zinga, built another company, sold it to Postmates.
has gone viral many times and it there's a lot of people in Silicon Valley who you almost ha it's like a film director. It's like oh they're working on a new project. You really want to know what they're doing. That's you. Uh,'cause you do things with taste. So excited to have you here. Do you uh do you have any good stories from early days of Zinga? Cause you sold a company to Zinga back when Zinga was the shit. Did you work with Mark Pincus? What's he like? Give me a good Zinka story. Uh okay. I have a great story, actually.
Uh how I came to report to Mark Pink is actually it's not a great story. I would like so many good March Biga stories. So yeah, is Zingabo my first uh second comp uh my first company. And I joined as director of product on her studio. Wait, can you give the background of Mark? So he marks like a Silicon Valley OG. I did he help uh fund Facebook to get off the ground? Was that his first big hit? He did. So um he and Reed Hoffman co owned bought the uh six degrees of separation patent.
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