Playdom

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2021 by Krista Quarles · said 8 times in 4 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Jul 29, 2021 neutral
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Quarles: Disney Acquired Playdom to Understand Shifting Consumer Media Habits
“When we sold Platum into Disney, a lot of that was, hey, consumers are spending different amounts of time with different types of media. We gotta understand this, and I think that was Bob who leaned in”
Krista Quarles Jul 29, 2021 ▶ 6:24 20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
Jul 29, 2021
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Quarles Forfeited Her Investment Banking Bonus to Join Startup Playdom
“I dove in, I gave away a giant bonus that I was going to get in my old banking world to go join this company. Cause I like, I was like, screw it. I'm just going to go. And I didn't get paid my bonus that year. I left in December and I was going to get paid it …”
Krista Quarles Jul 29, 2021 ▶ 4:37 20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
Jul 29, 2021
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Quarles: Playdom Was Second to Zynga in Social Gaming When She Joined
“Sitting on the sidelines, armchair quarterbacking, as we say in America, and I was like, I want to go play the game, and so the only way to do it here is to just go to a startup, and so I went to a small gaming company called Playdom, and we were second to Zyn…”
Krista Quarles Jul 29, 2021 ▶ 4:05 20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
Jul 29, 2021
Disclosure
Quarles: Playdom Reached 150 Employees Without an HRIS or Written Policies
“And this was exactly what happened to me at Playdom. Like we hit one 50 and like pretty, you know, all the software that's helped companies grow, but like we didn't have an HRIS. It was like in somebody's like spreadsheet on Excel or we had never written a pol…”
Krista Quarles Jul 29, 2021 ▶ 10:29 20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
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