Early Zynga succeeded by aligning investors around never selling
Mark Pincus · 20VC: Zynga's Mark Pincus on When To Ride Your Winners and Cut Your Losers, Why People With "Broken Resumes" Make The Best Hires & The 2 Biggest Lies Told In Silicon Valley By Founders and VCs · Nov 20, 2017 · at 11:31
Mark Pincus, founder and former CEO of Zynga, reflects on the company's early fundraising and governance strategy during an interview on 20VC.
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“One of the ingredients that I think was really key to making Zynga successful in the early days was alignment. And we had such powerful alignment between the investors, first the CEO and founder vision, and not just vision for the product or company, but the vision of the way we wanted to play this out. We wanted to remain an independent company and never sell the company.”
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