Mark, as always, does it his way. His recent announcement to relinquish control of Zynga is quintessential Mark, doing what he thinks the right thing is.
As an ex-Zynga employee, I am well aware of many things that we did that we are not proud of, and there are many things I wish we could have changed. And this is not the moment to rehash everything.
I wish the biggest problem in social media today was that we had too many cows. I really wish the world today had a game that 100 million people were playing. And that game was about a city where everyone was friendly. I wish we had a founder of a social media company who was more concerned about getting people to play together and having real social connections, not just randomly driving growth numbers.
And when we launched Zynga, the amount of hate we got from the gaming industry surprised me.
And after gamergate, I wonder if the problem that Zynga had was that we were the first company to build games that I could play while my kid was awake.
And when one of our games crossed the lines, Mark told them to go back.
For all of our flaws, we did not let our platform be a place you you could stalk or promote hate.
We did not let our games be sexist, misogynistic, etc.
We just wanted people to have fun,
Mark did it his own way.
Godspeed.
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