If you were going into the mobile game business today, how would you attack the challenge of getting users for a mobile game in competition with big spenders such as Supercell, Machine Zone, King, and Electronic Arts? That’s the challenge facing San Francisco mobile game company N3twork. And so the company has brought aboard Dan Barnes as its chief revenue officer.
Dan Barnes is the new chief revenue officer of N3twork.
Barnes has experience in user acquisition from his previous jobs at Zynga’s NaturalMotion studio, maker of CSR Racing, and at Machine Zone, creator of Game of War: Fire Age. As N3twork pivots from its previous business of creating an interest-based social network to its new mission of making mobile games, it needs someone like Barnes to figure out how to get noticed and how to get users to play N3twork’s upcoming games.
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