As Zynga continues to struggle, CEO Don Mattrick earns $57.8M
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Newsbrief: Zynga's shares have fallen by more than 21 percent in the last six months, although it wouldn't appear that the social game company's executives are feeling the strain too much.
As part of an annual shareholder meeting this week, and as reported by CNBC, Zynga CEO Don Mattrick earned a total of $57.8 million at Zynga this year.
Mattrick admitted earlier this month that the company has lost its way and missed out on even the most obvious opportunities. Now he's attempting to steer it toward being a mobile-first competitor with the upstarts that have, of late, been trouncing it in the market.
lol what did you expect?
[quote]"I don't fucking want innovation," the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."[/quote]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga#Corporate_culture[/url]
Isn't this that guy from Microsoft during the massive Xbox One controversy? Not surprised.
Don Mattrick is the brown-thumbed gardener of games. Everything he touches withers.
Yet he is still payed millions.
Is this even legal
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;45096030]Don Mattrick is the brown-thumbed gardener of games. Everything he touches withers.
Yet he is still payed millions.[/QUOTE]
I wish I could earn millions that way
Seems like he gets paid a lot to be the fall guy.
I should be a fall guy (Take note companies looking for a fall guy).
I don't understand how at all Zynga could be bleeding money. They steal all their shit, so there's literally no 'research' costs. All their games are shitty 2-D 'could have been made in 2002 with flash' games. And people pay out their ass for their in app purchases. How in the hell could they be losing money. There's no way they spend hundreds of million developing those pieces of shit.
I dunno, zynga, make a bejeweled clone too, call it candy something but saga and watch those figures go up again.
It sucks how we keep hearing about them firing people and closing studios left and right and the CEO alone earns enough to fund a couple hundreds indie game projects
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;45096217]I don't understand how at all Zynga could be bleeding money. They steal all their shit, so there's literally no 'research' costs. All their games are shitty 2-D 'could have been made in 2002 with flash' games. And people pay out their ass for their in app purchases. How in the hell could they be losing money. There's no way they spend hundreds of million developing those pieces of shit.[/QUOTE]
Server costs and advertisements probably
What the hell would you even do with fifty million dollars?
[QUOTE=Popularvote;45097754]What the hell would you even do with fifty million dollars?[/QUOTE]
boats n ho's
[QUOTE=Turnips5;45095804][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga#Corporate_culture[/url][/QUOTE]
Sounds like Zynga and Don Mattrick are a match made in Heaven.
[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;45097861]Attaboy Mattrick
[video=youtube;7D0_Cj1xxDo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0_Cj1xxDo[/video][/QUOTE]
Those last three seconds got me.
Whenever I'm browsing the Play Store, and I see a Zynga logo on a app, you can sure as hell bet I'm scrolling right past that shit.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;45096035]Is this even legal[/QUOTE]
This is america. Land of the free. Home of the homeless.
always got dem golden parachutes.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;45095991]Isn't this that guy from Microsoft during the massive Xbox One controversy? Not surprised.[/QUOTE]
Don Mattrick got this job last July, it takes time to turn a company around. He's definitely better than Pincus.
I imagine he's bleeding the company dry because he knows it's collapsing.
At least his third venture should be successful, you can't hat trick the Mattrick
[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;45097861]Attaboy Mattrick
[video=youtube;7D0_Cj1xxDo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0_Cj1xxDo[/video][/QUOTE]
Why do all of his claps sound like faps?
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Also I couldn't care less about Zynga. Let the company and all they stand for die.
hopefully king.com joins them
If things keep going south and then Microsoft buys Zynga after it completely tanks, there's going to be a shitstorm.
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;45096217]I don't understand how at all Zynga could be bleeding money. They steal all their shit, so there's literally no 'research' costs. All their games are shitty 2-D 'could have been made in 2002 with flash' games. And people pay out their ass for their in app purchases. How in the hell could they be losing money. There's no way they spend hundreds of million developing those pieces of shit.[/QUOTE]
They lose money because they have to pay Don Mattrick
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