The Ledger
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Sahgal: Zynga spammed users with notifications until Facebook altered platform rules
“The worst habit I would say is we burnt out so many fucking channels. And what I mean by that is Facebook in the early days opened up notifications for the first time for developers. So you could, as a developer, just send literally hundreds of push notificati…”
USV's 2004 Fund Had Four Investments Each Return the Full Fund
“We made investments in Zynga, Twitter, Indeed, and Etsy within about a six month period. In our 2004 fund, each of those returned the fund.”
Babayigit: Farmville sold more virtual tractors daily than real-world global sales
“I read a statistic somewhere that there was more tractors being sold in a day on Farmville than anywhere else in the world combined.”
Sahgal: Words with Friends core users were 50-to-60-year-old Midwestern women
“For us, it was Words with Friends, which was the product I've worked at for about four years, my term in Singa, and our users were not me, mostly not me. They were 50 to 60 year old women in the Midwest or somewhere in America, and they were looking to use thi…”
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…”