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Justin Waldron is an American internet entrepreneur known as the co-founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company, and Zynga.org, a non-profit organization to promote and facilitate the use of social games for philanthropic initiatives.
- The New World of Social Gaming
- Justin, The Investor
- What Does The Model Say
- What Does The Founder Say?
- Starting Up Again
So when Facebook was launched in his college campus, Justin was the first to sign up on the platform and explore the different applications that could be built. He began by building simple applications on the platform. One of the first things he built was a way for users to play games more easily with their friends who had Nintendo Wii. “You could ...
One of the reasons Zynga was able to build multiple products is because the core team enabled people to build things on their own. “Of course we would support them and share information across teams but what helped was this culture of allowing people to operate their own miniature companies inside of Zynga,” Justin recalls, something that’s not so ...
As an investor, Justin also looks for differentiated business models, just like how Zynga created one for social gaming. In fact, it is the differentiation from an existing business model that continues to excite Justin now, just as much as it did when he was 19 years old. It’s a key criterion he looks for when investing in startups. Citing the exa...
Another important criterion for Justin the investor is the team. “There is a huge opportunity in the world to create value by starting a technology company. The founders need to have insights and energy to go after the longer-term outcome. When you meet people like Lambda School Co-founder Austen Allred, you realise these are a different breed of p...
When Justin and Mark started Zynga in 2007, Facebook had 20 million people. When Zynga IPOed in 2011, FB had 200 million users. Today, Facebookhas over 2 billion users. Most games are focussed on advertising, and most people aren’t willing to click on gaming ads. They are just interested in playing or having a great experience with their friends....
Jan 31, 2012 · Justin Waldron, a co-founder of Zynga alongside Pincus, is actually still at the company and working on a new piece of intellectual property.
- Matt Lynley
- Henry Blodget
Justin Waldron is Co-Founder & President of Playco, and previously Co-Founder / EVP of Product of Zynga, the world's largest mobile game company. Zynga IPO'd in 2011 with a $10 billion valuation and over $1b in annual revenue.
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- Playco, Zynga
Mar 17, 2021 · Justin Waldron co-founded gaming company Zynga with Mark Pincus when he was 19. Today, he is an investor in over 50 companies across the globe, and has also founded another gaming...
Oct 17, 2013 · Justin Waldron, one of the co-founders of mobile games giant Zynga, is leaving the company some six and a half years after helping create its first game and scale its business.
Jul 26, 2023 · Justin Waldron is co-founder and CEO of Storyverse, co-founder and President of Playco, based in Tokyo. He’s an active angel investor in 60+ companies and previously co-founded Zynga, an unicorn company based in San Francisco.In 2021, he was named one of Business Insider's Top 100 Seed Investors.
