Profile: Mark Pincus, The King of Games Online.
Started career as an economist, Mark Pincus was more famous as the founder of Zynga. Zynga is one of the online game maker raise up to 250 million active users per month. In that position, Zynga claims to be the king of the game’s biggest social network. Through social networking, Zynga games such as City Ville, Farmville, Café World, Zynga Poker, and Mafia Wars are often played by the Facebook users.
Zynga's Mark Pincus successfully made into online games are most often played on social networking site Facebook. Some games they are also familiar among others, CityVille, FarmVille, Frontierville, Café World, Zynga Poker, and Mafia Wars. Currently active users Zynga made toys has reached 250 million people per month. Success is achieved only within two years.
Born in Chicago, United States on February 13, 1966, Mark Pincus spent 12 years with the school at Francis W. Parker School. Passed in 1984, Pincus and then continued his studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From there, he managed a degree in economics.
After graduating from Wharton, Pincus then worked in venture capital and financial services for almost six years. After that, for two years, he became a financial analyst at Lazard Freres & Co. His career soared when he moved to Hong Kong. For two years, Pincus served as vice president for Asia Capital Partners.
Soon in Hong Kong, in 1992, Pincus back to the United States (U.S.) to study at Harvard Business School in order to obtain an MBA. While in college, he spent the summer holidays as a partner for Bain & Co.
Graduated with an MBA, Pincus later worked as a manager of corporate development at Tele - Communications, which is now called AT & T Cable.
After a year of work, he joined Columbia Capital as vice president. In this company, Pincus began interested to learn IT. He led investments in new media and software in Washington. After that, in 1995, Pincus start the first step by launching Freeloader. It is a service push technology web-based e - mail. Seven months later, the Freeloader was acquired companies with a value of 38 million U.S. dollars.
Two years later, in August 1997, Pincus founded Support.com. He sat as chairman and Chief Executive officer (CEO). Support.com is built to be a service provider and software. Went public in July 2000, two years later, Support.com changed his name to SupportSoft.
At the age of 37 years or 2003, Pincus founded Tribe.net. The company is known as a forerunner to the first social network in the world. To support business development, Tribe.net partnered with major media, such as The Washington Post, Knight Rider Digital, and Mayfield Fund.
Pincus is also working with Reid Hoffman to purchase for professional social networking service LinkedIn is the heart of the company's Six Degrees Patent to the value of 700,000 U.S. dollars. After developing, in 2007, Cisco Systems acquired Tribe.net to develop a social networking platform for digital media group.
Do not stop there. In July 2007 Pincus founded Zynga, the maker of online games. The name was taken from the name of his bulldog. Did not take long, contrived game that Zynga continues to grow. Moreover, in those years was the development of social networking is also very high.
Zynga claims to be the king of the game’s biggest social network on the internet. Forbes assesses the total net worth Pincus reached 850 million U.S. dollars. Zynga played in various social networks like Facebook, as well as mobile devices, iPhone, Android, and iPad.
In addition to making games, Zynga has also created a network that allows a third party to be part of Zynga.
Along with the development of its business, Pincus continues to acquire company’s builder online game Zynga in order to accelerate business growth.
In the hands of Mark Pincus, Zynga's growth is very rapid. He is keen to see the enthusiasm of the Facebook social network users by entering Zynga homemade toys. Because of that, too, online toy maker headquartered in San Francisco was flooded with customers. Each month, Zynga games playable online homemade 320 million active users.
Step Pincus acquired several companies online toy makers, including from outside the United States (U.S.) makes Zynga the wider wings. Today, it has 13 offices spread across the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
It also employs more than 1,300 employees. With this success, Zynga is now able to beat its competitors; Electronic Arts is already much longer standing.
Mark Pincus of Zynga is not itself set up in July 2007. He took his partner, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. A year later, they received a loan of 29 million dollars from several companies led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in July 2008.
At the same time, they also appointed former Electronic Arts Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon as directors.
They also acquired YoVille, the largest online gaming companies in the social networking that time. This acquisition brings results. A year later , business development Zynga exceptional , characterized by the presence of about 60 million active users every day in their homemade online games .
The development of this outstanding business requires Pincus add employees. In September 2010, Zynga has more than 1,200 employees.
Not satisfied doing business in the United States, Zynga also expanded abroad, namely to Asia and Europe. February 2010, Zynga opened an office in Bangalore, India. This is Zynga’s first office outside the U.S. A month later, Pincus makes office in Ireland as a second headquarters for Zynga.
To increase the number of customers, on May 18, 2010, Zynga had a meeting with the management ranks of Facebook to build a cooperative relationship for the next five years. In collaboration, the two companies agreed to share the profits of online game users fib Zynga. Gradually, this feature will be used in any Zynga game.
In order for its business continues to expand, on June 3, 2010, Zynga back to corporate action to acquire Challenge Games. Did not take long, Zynga also acquired Dextrose from Germany and changed his name to Zynga Germany. The acquisition is the company’s first expansion into Europe.
On December 2, 2010, Zynga bought Texas Newtoy, the developer of mobile -based game, Words with Friend and changed his name to Zynga with Friend.
In the same month, Zynga's game CityVille debuted with 5 million monthly users. The results surpassed Farmville - which also belongs to Zynga - the most popular game played by gamers in the virtual world.
Zynga also acquired New York noted, area codes, and game developers changed its name to Zynga New York.
Hand and brain Pincus indeed magical. Zynga now has a total of 13 studios around the world , including in Sunnyvale , Seattle , Los Gatos , Los Angeles , Boston , Baltimore , Bangalore , Beijing , and Tokyo .
Not yet satisfied, on October 5, 2010, Zynga re- acquisition. This time, he acquired Bonfire Studios. Its name was changed to Zynga Dallas. The acquisition also makes Zynga employees accrue 100 people, to 1,300 employees.
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