Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office
Conceptually, I love every bit of bad Zynga news. I like to be reassured that a company will, in the long term, fail when its products are cynically designed to manipulate. That a company will fail when their strategy assumes it's okay to blatantly, consistently, continuously lift design from other firms and products.<p>Practically, though, bad Zynga news feels <i>terrible</i>. Because the guys who architected this repugnant exploitation machine <i>already got paid</i>. They made millions selling their stock before the market truly understood what a shit business they were running. Meanwhile, front-line employees sat with their plummeting stock locked up.<p>So any bad Zynga news is nothing more than notice that yet another group of hardworking folks is, somehow, getting fucked over, despite their leadership enjoying tremendous rewards.<p>Very frustrating to watch.