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" As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you're substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it. "
You
Entrepreneur
Ready
" From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have. "
Google
Time
Company
" I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social. "
Believe
Opportunities
I Believe
" I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that. "
Me
Early
Media
" I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble. "
Way
People
Humble
" I'm fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that's more left, and on some issues it might be more right. "
Party
Push
More
" In a world of shared data services, where you have third-party networks selling ads on your behalf and displaying them in real time to your users, it's very difficult for you to control everything. "
Time
Data
Selling
" I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer. "
Great
Just
Need
" In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough. "
Positive
More
Looking
" I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't stop there. It comes from saying you're dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody. "
Employees
Leadership
Saying
" I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs. "
Advice
Other
Out
" I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set. "
Skill
Fun
I Am
" I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on. "
Unique
Time
Think
" I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do. "
Choose
You
Think
" It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10. "
Years
Place
Game
" I've been good at product entrepreneuring. "
Good
Product
Been
" I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week. "
Learning
Grown
Every
" My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with. "
People
Earn
Work
" My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda. "
More
Agenda
America
" People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?' "
Someone
Life
Thought
" The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people. "
You
People
More
" The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people. "
Day
Media
Beginning
" There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove. "
Prove
Think
Say
" The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it. "
Successful
Company
People
" You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction. "
Personality
Strength
Sleep
" Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. "
Leader
Industry
Play
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