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The Secret to Building a Social Gaming Empire: Justin Waldron
Manage episode 434408321 series 3569224
At age 19, Justin Waldron built an app that would go on to have the biggest IPO since Google. That company was Zynga, and it completely changed the way the world played games.
Listen now for behind-the-scenes stories that shaped an era of social gaming, as well as Justin Waldron’s own secret for scaling up Zynga and setting it apart from the competition.
In this episode of Secret Stash, co-hosts Archie Stonehill and Justin Kan sit down with Justin Waldron to talk through:
👉 origins of Zynga and the edge they found in the market
👉 the innovative business model that helped Zynga win
👉 the company’s love/hate relationship with Facebook
👉 rise and fall of social gaming (and who’s to blame for the fall)
Read the highlights here: https://dev.stash.gg/blog/secret-stash-ep-4-matt-ball
0:00 - Intro
1:21 - Justin’s first Facebook app
3:45 - Building Zynga Poker
6:10 - Facebook’s missing puzzle piece
9:00 - Browser power
11:46 - The winning freemium model
20:35 - Scaling horizontally
28:33 - A culture of experimentation
33:57 - Love/hate with Facebook
36:57 - The rise of mobile
38:49 - Apple as a gatekeeper
42:17 - Amazing corp dev
43:47 - Scaling organically
48:09 - The fall of social gaming
59:36 - Telegram’s killing it
1:0922 - Crypto
Subscribe now to be the first to listen to new Secret Stash episodes!
Stash is the first of its kind direct-to-consumer platform for games.
Learn more about Stash here: https://dev.stash.gg/
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Manage episode 434408321 series 3569224
At age 19, Justin Waldron built an app that would go on to have the biggest IPO since Google. That company was Zynga, and it completely changed the way the world played games.
Listen now for behind-the-scenes stories that shaped an era of social gaming, as well as Justin Waldron’s own secret for scaling up Zynga and setting it apart from the competition.
In this episode of Secret Stash, co-hosts Archie Stonehill and Justin Kan sit down with Justin Waldron to talk through:
👉 origins of Zynga and the edge they found in the market
👉 the innovative business model that helped Zynga win
👉 the company’s love/hate relationship with Facebook
👉 rise and fall of social gaming (and who’s to blame for the fall)
Read the highlights here: https://dev.stash.gg/blog/secret-stash-ep-4-matt-ball
0:00 - Intro
1:21 - Justin’s first Facebook app
3:45 - Building Zynga Poker
6:10 - Facebook’s missing puzzle piece
9:00 - Browser power
11:46 - The winning freemium model
20:35 - Scaling horizontally
28:33 - A culture of experimentation
33:57 - Love/hate with Facebook
36:57 - The rise of mobile
38:49 - Apple as a gatekeeper
42:17 - Amazing corp dev
43:47 - Scaling organically
48:09 - The fall of social gaming
59:36 - Telegram’s killing it
1:0922 - Crypto
Subscribe now to be the first to listen to new Secret Stash episodes!
Stash is the first of its kind direct-to-consumer platform for games.
Learn more about Stash here: https://dev.stash.gg/
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