putting my money where my blog mouth is, i shorted 5000 shares of ebay at $39 today. as i've said, i think ebay is a great company run by really smart people, however, i believe they have some tough times ahead as their walled garden marketplace confronts competition from the free and open network. as many have also said, their purchase of skype which is hard to justify on any synergistic level seems like a big sell sign. looks like backwards arbitrage as they are useing their stock at say a 40 p/e and buying another stock at say a 300 p/e.
Mark Pincus
Founder,
Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Product Officer
Founder,
Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Product Officer
Mark is the founder, CEO and chief product officer of Zynga. He founded the company in 2007 with a mission of connecting the world through games, and in founding zynga.org, he also believes that games can do good.
On his way to creating Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003, he launched Tribe.net, one of the first social networks. Before that, he founded Support.com, a pioneer in automating tech support, and took it public. In 1995, he launched FreeLoader, the first web-based consumer push company. Mark started his career in new media and venture capital before he discovered his calling as a consumer technology entrepreneur. Mark also made founding investments in Napster, Brightmail, Twitter and Facebook.
Mark graduated summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Zynga’s Mission
connecting the world through games
connecting the world through games
Zynga Core Values
- Build games you & your friends love to plays
- Meritocracy: level ups
- Be CEO, own outcomess
- Move at Zynga speeds
- Zynga first: decisions for the greater goods
- Innovate on best of breed mechanics
Wow, that's quite a gamble.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | October 26, 2005 at 12:32 PM