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Mark Pincus

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Mark Pincus · Technology & Engineering

What

Founder of Zynga (2007), whose FarmVille taught a billion people to play games with their friends.

When

13 February 1966, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Where

San Francisco, California, United States

Biography

Mark Pincus is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Founder of Zynga (2007), whose FarmVille taught a billion people to play games with their friends.

How & why

Mark Pincus, who is Jewish, founded Zynga in 2007 — named after his bulldog — and put FarmVille, Words With Friends and Zynga Poker on the world's phones and Facebook feeds, making games a social habit for hundreds of millions. An early investor in Facebook and Twitter, he had already co-founded one of the first social networks, Tribe.net, and co-holds an early patent shaping the social web.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pincus

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Founder of Zynga (2007), whose FarmVille taught a billion people to play games with their friends.

2007

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pincus