{"id":940,"date":"2011-07-05T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:45:31","slug":"zynga-and-the-potential-folly-of-relying-on-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"zynga and the [potential] folly of relying on others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zynga is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2011\/07\/zyngas-ipo-filing-details-risk-dependence-on-facebook.ars\">getting ready<\/a> to IPO.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re the group that does &#8220;Farmville&#8221; and other games on facebook. The problem with their planned $1B IPO, though, is that they rely completely on facebook&#8217;s continued existence to make any of their earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Last year their profits were in the neighborhood of $400M. That&#8217;s a lot of dough. But when facebook declines, or folks quit playing games on it, what will happen to the company?<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a <strong><em>LOT<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of investors could get taken big time on this one &#8211; if they hold onto the stock the way you&#8217;re &#8220;supposed to&#8221; &#8211; as an investment, and not a short-term gamble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zynga is getting ready to IPO. They&#8217;re the group that does &#8220;Farmville&#8221; and other games on facebook. The problem with their planned $1B IPO, though, is that they rely completely on facebook&#8217;s continued existence to make any of their earnings. Last year their profits were in the neighborhood of $400M. That&#8217;s a lot of dough. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=940\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">zynga and the [potential] folly of relying on others<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,13,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-finance","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}