Shay Pierce Archives

OMGPOP CEO responds to criticisim of his tweets about former employee

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 1, 2012
2 min

CEO Dan Porter responds to critics who have called his remarks about his former employee petty. "It wasn't about Shay. It was about the 41 other people that made it happen." Porter also explains his "hoodie" tweet that seemed to capitalize on the Trayvon Martin tragedy.

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OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter tweets that his former employee is a failure

OMGPOP CEO tweets that only employee not to transition to Zynga was the “weakest” one (UPDATED)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 1, 2012
4 min

In a pair of tweets, CEO Dan Porter of Draw Something developer OMGPOP called the one employee who turned down Zynga "selfish" and "the weakest one" on the team. Many fans of the sketching game for smartphones stated that they're uninstalling Draw Something based on Porter's behavior.

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The DeanBeat: “Evil” Zynga learns that old labels can come back to haunt you

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 30, 2012
8 min

Is Zynga evil? When Zynga paid $180 million for OMGPOP, the maker of the wonderfully creative Draw Something app, it was a great moment....

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Meet the one OMGPOP employee who turned down a new job at Zynga

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 27, 2012
2 min

In the torrent of coverage about Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP last week, most of the focus was on the price, eventually revealed to be...

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