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Just the fact that Ayers was stylized as a "Google chef" and not by his name is demoralizing. It just gets worse when they speak of his success as something a company should avoid if at all possible. It's manipulative to hire someone, offer them stock options, then decide they're not worth it later on. Just don't offer them in the first place!



Fortunately, Pincus' attempt to paint Ayers with this brush _is_ backfiring. Ayers is getting tons of free publicity, while Pincus is utterly failing at what he was trying to accomplish.

Zynga is bleeding valuation right now.


I'm not sure if you should really be demoralized by it - this is one of those textbook actions where how person A treats person B tells you all you need to know about them. I don't think this incident has revealed some ugly aspect of our culture, but it has revealed a ton about the people that run Zynga and the "others in the Valley" that think this way.

I'd stay away from these folks at all costs.


Just the fact that Ayers was stylized as a "Google chef" and not by his name is demoralizing. It just gets worse when they speak of his success as something a company should avoid if at all possible.

Last time I checked, Google has multiple high-quality products that users love, and it's not hurting because of the "Google chef". Zynga has... what, exactly? A bunch of shitty games that die (and have to be reinvented) as soon as the novelty wears off.

Who the fuck is Mark Fucking Pincus to decry the "Google chef"? Zynga will never achieve 1/100 of what Google achieved. Pinky should learn from Google, not trash it on no basis whatsoever.




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