Comments on: Zynga exec exodus continues as gaming company loses infrastructure CTO

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:21:31 +0000

I’m going to be a scratched record on this but Zynga is a bad example of how to retain talent. When you take away stock from employees pre-IPO it’s a notice that you aren’t employee friendly company. Their past few quarters have been all accounting magic and slowing Facebook growth with equate to some anxious executives and tech talent.

It’s a shame because Zynga has to great technology that a bunch of folks would love to work with including their Z-Cloud.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 01:28:36 +0000

Travis, thanks for the Insight. Looks like Allan is a great hire for them especially as they start to scale their operation.

By: Travis Henning

Travis Henning — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:54:50 +0000

My organization has been a customer for 4 years and have not regretted the move.
They aren’t as sexy as a lot of the consumer driven tech companies, but they have flipped the enterprise IT Service Management market on its head and put other ITSM vendors (HP and BMC) on notice. What they’ve done against the legacy titans is remarkable. I just hope they can keep it up under the new leadership and post-IPO.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:25:11 +0000

Travis

I too have heard good things about ServiceNow – clearly a low profile company here in Silicon Valley.

By: Travis Henning

Travis Henning — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:58:12 +0000

ServiceNow for the win!
User and big proponent of the company.
On the other side, Zynga is clearly a sinking ship.