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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★2009 CEO of the Year - The Crunchies technology awards
★2010 Founder of the Year - The Crunchies
★Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award - Northern California (2007)
★Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2010)
★Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors (2011)
★Wall Street Journal's Innovator of the Year Award (2012)
Notable Facts
→Founded Zynga, pioneer of social gaming industry with FarmVille and Words With Friends
→Led $1 billion Zynga IPO in 2011, one of largest tech IPOs at the time
→Serial entrepreneur - founded FreeLoader (sold for $38M), Support.com ($1.5B IPO), Tribe.net
→Early founding investor in Facebook, Twitter, Napster, Snapchat, and other major tech companies
→Co-founded Reinvent Capital investment firm with Reid Hoffman and Michael Thompson
→Net worth estimated around $1.4 billion
→Teaches product management at Stanford Graduate School of Business
→Appointed to Presidio Trust board by President Obama in 2017
→Raised over $20 million for nonprofits through Zynga.org
→Harvard MBA and Wharton graduate (summa cum laude)
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