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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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July 23, 2006

We need to open up the bidding for buying off US politicians

Vanity fair has great in depth coverage of the washington scandals surrounding san diego congressman cunningham who pleaded guilty to accepting 2.4M in bribes to direct defense contracts to cronies.

What amazes me is that his alleged co-conspirators, kyle foggo (cia), jerry lewis (congress) and defense contractors brent wilkes and mitchell wade haven't been charged with anything. Not to mention all the folks in the pentagon who played along, allegedly to get congressional buyoff on the 2B dollar F-22 deal.

This is what happens when we are all apathetic. Thank g-d for mainstream media who continue to be the only watchdogs trying to keep tabs on all the corruption.

Our govt continues to be a cheap auction. Cunningham directed 100's of millions in return for thousands in antiques.

Here are some actual numbers showing how cheaply we can buy a congressman (and the defense appropriations committee)...

140k bribe (for a boat) = 16 M 50k bribe = 17 M

I can't wait for the day when we the people get a chance to bid openly to buy off politicians and contracts. If this system were just put online at least it would be open and competitive. Then maybe the better projects might win. At least these sleazy, dumb old white men wouldn't be the ones getting rich and the margins might go down.

Besides, with this system of openly bid payoffs the money would be greater and we might attract smarter people.

What really bugs me is that cuningham was only sentenced to 7 years and now they're talking about letting him out earyl for cooperation and in light of his cancer and 8 yrs remaining life expectancy.

How do you send bernie ebers, a stupid football coach, to jail for life and then show leniency to a totally corrupt congressman? What's the message there?

We have to find a way to take over the us govt and send these f'ing carpet baggers to jail.
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Mark: I read that article; outrageous, isn't it? Great to meet Ned's uncle/Susie's brother. You piqued my interest re: blogs. Interesting. I look forward to chatting with you again sometime.

jaime

Posted by: Jaime | July 23, 2006 at 08:09 PM

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