Last week I posted about how the book and movie Moneyball provided great lessons for the social game industry (Lessons from Moneyball for the social game industry post). I just came across a post on the Business 2 Community blog (Game Change: Moneyball and the Reality of Social Business)that did a great job of showing how the lessons from Moneyball and the rise of Billy Beane is so similar to what happens in social businesses (including social gaming). It really makes some great points about hiring, arguably your most important task. I definitely recommend you take a look at the post.
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Author: Lloyd Melnick
I am Director of StarsPlay at The Stars Group (PokerStars), where I lead the team responsible for free-to-play gaming. We currently have more than 20 free-to-play applications with over 500,000 daily unique players. Our game, Jackpot Poker, won the 2017 EGR award for best mobile poker product. Previously, I was Sr Dir at Zynga's social casino (including Hit It Rich! slots, Zynga Poker and our mobile games), where I led VIP CRM efforts and arranged licensing deals. I have been a central part of the senior management team (CCO, GM and CGO) at three exits (Merscom/Playdom, Playdom/Disney and Spooky Cool/Zynga) worth over $700 million the past 4 years.
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