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I think I give myself high ma...

I think I give myself high marks being an entrepreneur and entrepreneuring a big idea about how popular social gaming could be. But I learned a lot of hard lessons on the CEO front... and do not give myself very high marks as a CEO of a large-scale company.

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You're not smarter than your ...

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

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We did anything possible just...

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

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I think failing is the best w...

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

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As an entrepreneur, you can h...

As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you're substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.

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It's okay to be misunderstood...

It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.

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I just don't feel respected i...

I just don't feel respected in the political process as a large donor or as a citizen voter. I just feel patronized. Everything I get is like, 'Hey, you couldn't possibly - it's too complex and sophisticated what really goes on,' and, 'Hey, leave it to us, and we will go and represent you and fight the good fight, and just give us money.'

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The overall tectonic shifts t...

The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.

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There's a lot of opportunity ...

There's a lot of opportunity for game developers to show value to people, things they want to spend money on. I think offers are just another kind of ads.

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The art of it is, the more we...

The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.

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We're busy people; we need me...

We're busy people; we need media that's multitask-able. I want games I can play while I'm watching television. 70% of Americans are on the Internet while they watch TV. We all multitask now, and we need media to reflect that.

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I seek out a lot of advice fr...

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

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I think we live in a unique t...

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.

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People were hanging out in th...

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'

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I got involved early on in so...

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

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I believe in the opportunitie...

I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.

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I was in banking because it w...

I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.

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About every other week, I sit...

About every other week, I sit down with all of our new Zynga hires and I talk to them for about 90 minutes, have an open Q&A. There is no formal presentation. I talk about our values, where they came from and why they are so important, and I ask them to challenge those values.

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Clearly as you move to being ...

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

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When you go to our political ...

When you go to our political system, I feel like it's intentionally kept in the last century. In every other facet of life, we turn to social media for instant response time, complete transparency.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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