OMGPOP

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2024 by Dan Porter · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jul 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OMGPOP saw 50% churn from users who lost their first game
“I understood from our site that if you came onto our site and you played a game, if you and Sam played and Sam won, 50% of the time you would never come back to the site again.”
Dan Porter Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 16:44 Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
Jul 10, 2024 positive
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Porter rehired laid-off OMGPOP employees before Zynga deal to vest options
“There were a bunch of employees who I had to let go, and I just made the decision on my own to rehire them, like, the day before the deal closed so that their options would still vest.”
Dan Porter Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 32:28 Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
Jul 10, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
OMGPOP averaged 4.5 hours of user time on site
“Our average time on site was like four and a half hours”
Dan Porter Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 6:21 Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
Jul 10, 2024
Disclosure
Porter gave away a $5 million cash bonus from the Zynga acquisition
“Zynga said, here's five million dollars in cash. I could have put that whole thing in my own bank account if I wanted to. And sure. Do I wish I had that money today? Sure. Who doesn't? But like to be able to release that and give it to other people and change …”
Dan Porter Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 36:40 Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
Jul 10, 2024
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Zynga used two law firms working 24/7 to close OMGPOP acquisition
“So they hired two law firms. One worked the 1:12 hours of the day on the deal. And then the other one worked the 2:12 hours of the day of the deal. And the whole deal got done in nine days”
Dan Porter Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 25:46 Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
Jul 10, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Draw Something peaked at 25 million daily active users
“On a DAU basis, we had at least twenty-five million people playing every day which was gigantic at that time. We ultimately were downloaded two hundred and fifty million times.”
Dan Porter Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 14:02 Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
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