Zynga, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zynga comes up
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Classy and AirMap, just to name a few, and prior to forming Bullpen, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and Udemy, and before becoming an investor, Paul was the founder of four…
- ▶ 3:54 Paul Martino You were the first angel in companies like Zynga and Udemy and a couple of things that are really kicking butt.
20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
- ▶ 4:49 Jerry Colonna Eventually, in 96, the year you were born, um, Fred Wilson and I met through a mutual friend named Mark Pincus, best known, I guess, now for Zynga, and, um, we went into business and formed Flatiron Partners, and that's how I became a VC.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 13:14 Mamoon Hamid You know, run by my partner, Ray, who came from Facebook, and, uh, on that team, you have Jonathan and Pink Cash, who are from Facebook and Instagram, and, and Andy was from Zynga.
20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- ▶ 16:36 Harry Stebbings In terms of losing money, and this is a very hard one because you didn't lose money, but a little birdie told me about turning down Zynga.
- ▶ 21:38 Howard Lindzon I wouldn't have passed on Twitter and Zynga because evaluation, um, cause everything lined up.
20VC: Lerer Hippeau's Ben Lerer on 'Investing With Imagination', Strategies To Avoid Fomo & Develop Pattern Recognition As An Investor and Why We Have Seen The Rise of Direct To Consumer Business & Will This Continue With Further M&A
20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient?
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Matt is the co-managing partner and co-founder at Data Collective, and he has over three decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur and VC, and has made investments in the likes of Facebook, Zynga, Uber, and AngelList, just to name a few.
20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And as for Amir, he previously founded Market Zero, a poker software company, which was acquired by Zynga, where he then spent time as game CTO.
- ▶ 2:48 unnamed speaker We sold that company to Zynga in 2011. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 Harry Stebbings And it's, what was the thought process behind the sale to Zynga? 2 times in the scene
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 0:13 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Union Square Ventures in New York, with investments in the likes of Twitter, Twilio, Zynga, Lending Club, SoundCloud, and a recent interview of ours, actually, CircleUp, just to name a few.
20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now, Bill was also previously co-founder and CEO of Conduit Labs, which was sold to Zynga in 2010, where he then became general manager up until their IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31 Nabeel Hyatt Was on my fifth, uh, which I had sold into, uh, Zynga, and then was at Zynga through the IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Nabeel Hyatt Uh, I think if you would have looked at my recent resume and successes and, and so on, and frankly, even me, you know, you would have looked at Zynga and the, and the previous three or four years and said, well, this person knows an awful…