ORIENTATION for new employees of Zynga, the fast-growing maker of Facebook
games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, can be a
heady affair given the company’s outsize ambitions — all of which are
embodied in Mark Pincus, Zynga’s 44-year-old founder.
In a pep talk this month, Mr. Pincus told his company’s newcomers that he had set out to build an enduring Internet icon, one that was synonymous with fun.
“I thought, it’s 2007, and this can’t be all that the Internet is meant to be,” he said. There has to be more than “a garage sale, a bookstore, a search engine and a portal,” he added in a good-natured putdown of the Web giants eBay, Amazon, Google and Yahoo.
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Author: MIGUEL HELFT
