Keep pulling the thread on Mark Pincus.
The company Freeloader was sold for $38 million.
Mark Pincus was the first investor in Napster after Sean Parker, who had worked for him at Freeloader, requested money for more servers.
Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman were the first investors in the social networking site Friendster.
Zynga was one of the first companies in the Western world to implement an in-app purchase model using virtual goods.
Zynga was cash-flow positive from its inception and never used any of the venture capital it raised.
Zynga's first venture round was complicated by a conflict between Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital, resulting in both firms pulling out of a potential deal.
Fred Wilson's venture firm ultimately funded Zynga's first round with a $15 million pre-money valuation.
At its peak, approximately 20% of all Facebook users were playing FarmVille.
Spotify and Zynga are the only two companies that survived building on the early Facebook app ecosystem.
Facebook presented Zynga with unfavorable terms on a Friday and demanded they be signed by Monday, threatening to take down all of Zynga's apps if they did not comply.
At the time of Facebook's IPO, Zynga accounted for approximately 20% of Facebook's page views and 10% of its revenues.
After a turnaround effort, Words with Friends generated $180 million in revenue and $100 million in contribution margin, significantly outperforming its initial negative projections.