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		<title>Start a Company. Control Your Destiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend forward me the following article from the Consumerist with links to Zynga&#8217;s CEO Mark Pincus Youtube movie. So here&#8217;s what he said on the video (I guess that he did not know that someone is recording): I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend forward me the following article from the <a href="http://consumerist.com/5400720/mafia-wars-ceo-brags-about-scamming-users-from-day-one" target="_blank">Consumerist </a>with links to <a href="http://www.zynga.com/" target="_blank">Zynga&#8217;s </a><a href="http://www.zynga.com/about/" target="_blank">CEO </a><a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #383131; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #markpincus" href="http://consumerist.com/tag/markpincus/">Mark Pincus</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7YaVVpK1G4&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Youtube </a>movie. So here&#8217;s what he said on the video (I guess that he did not know that someone is recording):</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, fucking, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn&#8217;t get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business…So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Personally, I do not see ANY problem with that. In fact, despite the somehow graphic langue and maybe some over bragging, I think that <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #383131; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #markpincus" href="http://consumerist.com/tag/markpincus/">Mark Pincus</a> was/ is doing the right thing. All we have to do is wait and see how it goes&#8230; </span></p>
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