Social Media
Draw Something and the $210 Million Mobile Gaming Lesson
Draw Something: 50M downloads in 7 weeks, $210M Zynga acquisition in March 2012, written down by April 2013. The canonical mobile-gaming retention case study.
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Mark Pincus
Sports & Gaming
Zynga: The Company That Taught the Internet to Play
FarmVille, the IPO collapse, the Pincus reset, the $12.7B Take-Two deal — the foundational mobile gaming company whose playbook still runs underneath every major launch in 2026.