In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
Games are the most social of all things on the web.
Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.
I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place.