“Zynga is often accused of copying games, which is mostly true.”
Zynga New York general manager and former OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter, on selling his Pictionary clone to the world’s foremost maker of Poker and Scrabble clones, Quartz, 8 March 2013
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A GOLDEN BOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR
“If we ever see breakout opportunities that massively accelerate social gaming at Zynga, we’ll aggressively pursue those, too.”
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, vowing to overpay for startups like Draw Something maker OMGPOP, Bloomberg, 17 April 2012
I’M ON THE RIGHT FARM, BABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY
“Lady Gaga is passionate, 100 percent fan-focused, and a fashion icon. At Zynga we’re at least two of those things, three on a good day.”
Zynga executive Owen Van Natta, breaking his long-silent poker face to announce a partnership between the FarmVille operator and the ubiquitously networked singer, VentureBeat, 10 May 2011
I’M SORRY, YOUR FARM HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED
“In five years, Facebook is world’s social dial tone, Amazon is your shopping dial tone, we will be your social games dial tone.”
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, on how players of its popular social games like FarmVille should really think of its constant out-of-sync errors as the 21st-century equivalent of fast busy signals, Twitter, 21 October 2010
DON’T HAITI THE PLAYER, HAITI THE GAME
“Do you really intend to attack us with mistruths for our efforts to help Haiti? I have remained quiet in the past while your blog has spread lies about my company but this one goes too far.”
Zynga CEO and underemployed Internet commenter Mark Pincus, responding to observations that his social-gaming startup kept $1.2 million from sales of highly profitable virtual goods in the process of collecting an equal amount in donations for Haiti last year, Valleywag, 4 March 2010
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