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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zynga comes up
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 45:10 Alex Rampell I tried doing this with trial pay because it's like, all right, you're playing a Zynga game. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 27:29 Alex Rampell Like they were like, no, we're going to have a platform that allows companies like Zynga to build these farming games.
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 38:17 David George Like you've talked about it as sort of, you know, Singo was built on top of Facebook.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 0:42 Andrew Chen Mark, I, I don't know if you, if you remember the first time we met, actually, uh, but we actually had a conversation about Zynga, you know, because it was during the, the whole Facebook platform.
- ▶ 36:31 Andrew Chen Um, you know, one is, uh, talk to us about how, um, you know, when, when we began, um, you know, doing more investing in games, and actually before I even showed up at the firm, I think we had invested in, uh, in Zynga and Oculus and a…
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 26:09 Chris Dixon At one point, like Zynga was built on Facebook.
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 13:58 Jonathan Lai The winners in mobile games were largely new companies, uh, Supercell, King, Zynga, and not the PC console and companies, right?
- ▶ 19:57 Jonathan Lai Uh, if you recall the early days of, um, Facebook games, um, take, for example, Funville, like the, like the Zynga games.
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- ▶ 6:17 Chris Dixon You know, if anyone knows the history of Zynga, that was a company that built gaming on Facebook, and they had that, you know, sort of, the platforms are so powerful, and they're for-profit businesses that they don't have an incentive to…
What's Next for Esports Startups
- ▶ 19:13 Andrew Chen And so, everything was like, you can't do anything, you, you know, you could play, play, play, you get to a certain point, then you, you hit the kind of Zynga game mechanics in Farmville, where it was like, well, in order to do this, you…
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 24:41 Chris Dixon So much, there's so many issues created around platforms, and around trusting platforms, and so you think about, you know, Zynga building on Facebook, and like the hundreds of entrepreneurs who tried to build on top of Twitter, and just…
a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption'
- ▶ 34:14 Chris Dixon Microsoft Netscape, you know, Facebook Zynga, like Twitter and the Twitter apps, or whatever, right?
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 5:34 Chris Dixon Um, so, you know, Zynga is a very prominent company that built games on top of Facebook.
- ▶ 21:51 Chris Dixon Um, you know, the Facebook Zynga's, and the tech world's famous, and the, you know, the Twitter, and its ecosystem is a famous battle.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 28:27 Sonal Chokshi So did Zynga and so did other platforms.
a16z Podcast | Managing Uncertainty -- Layoffs and Talent
- ▶ 7:15 Alex Rampell Zynga, their own revenue goes down by 70%.
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 34:22 Alex Rampell So you don't want to pay for Zynga Poker.
- ▶ 34:34 Alex Rampell Um, and the other side of our business was, uh, you know, signing up more guys like Zynga. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Raising Money and Valuing Startups -- What Happens When Things Don't Go As Planned?
- ▶ 5:55 Danielle Morrill So a huge piece of this is I think there are a lot of new funds, so funds that maybe have been around, but they haven't been investing in startups, and what they want is they want some logos on their website with legitimate, like,…
- ▶ 6:49 Danny Shader Um, and I wonder about people who, and you mentioned Zynga, for example, right, things that you think are the, the name that you want on your website, whether or not that's going to be true, you know, when you actually need to go raise…
Crypto, the Future of Trust
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 4:44 Chris Dixon Um, so, you know, Zynga is a very prominent company that built games on top of Facebook.
- ▶ 21:01 Chris Dixon Um, you know, the Facebook Zynga's and the tech world's famous and the, you know, the Twitter and its ecosystem is a famous battle.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 6:16 Alex Rampell Yeah, I remember it as, you know, so we had downloadable Windows and Mac software, primarily Windows, and that was kind of going like this, and then it fell off a cliff, and then as we were falling down that cliff, then social gaming was…
- ▶ 10:15 Alex Rampell yeah, my recollection on this, because now, you know, I see startups all the time that are going through hard times, and, you know, one of the things that we, I mean, just to explain to people what we ended up doing, you know, TrialPay was… 2 times in the scene