How fast is Zynga the company growing?
We’ve grown to 310 fulltime, 390 including contractors. That’s more than double where we were in November. We’ve actually tried to slow down the growth a little bit. At the same time, we’ve brought on some great senior executives and promoted some people internally who’ve become rock stars. Anybody we know? Vish Makhijani ran search at Yahoo. He joined our company as SVP and in the first quarter he was with us we promoted him to COO. He’s now running all of the business and operations side, which lets me focus more on the games. Mike Verdu, he ran EA’s LA studio. He’s already running some key parts of the company. Brian Reynolds was one of the founders of Big Huge Games. He was the creator of Civilization II and he created my favorite game, Rise of Nations. He started a new studio for us in Maryland. Any other secret locations we should know about? The rest are secret secret. Facebook has had lots of success expanding Facebook Connect and now its even experimenting with something calle
