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By: looking back at my first year at playdom | malvasia bianca

looking back at my first year at playdom | malvasia bianca — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:59:59 +0000

[...] been a little more than a year since I joined Playdom, so I figured I should collect my thoughts about how it’s gone so far [...]

By: David Carlton

David Carlton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:59:20 +0000

Yeah, I think something like that must have happened at Sun – I know Sun’s finance overexposure hurt it big time over the last year and a half.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:20 +0000

I saw an extreme version of the “highly successful early entrant” effect at one of my former employers, a huge company for its industry. The company instantiated a new version of the 80/20 rule: 80% of revenue (or more) came from twenty customers. Not 20% of the customers, TWENTY FREAKING CUSTOMERS out of probably tens of thousands, maybe more. (We all knew this because there was an internal Web page you could go to that listed them.)

All of the twenty were themselves huge businesses, quite possibly depending on similarly narrow revenue bases. Naturally, as they got into trouble and cut costs or merged with others, my employer sagged deeper and deeper. In the end … well. Not pretty.

By: Praveen Kumar

Praveen Kumar — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:35:19 +0000

We will miss you! I am sure that Playdom is fortunate to have you on board. Wish you all the very best, David!

By: David Carlton

David Carlton — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:39:27 +0000

Thanks for all the kind words, everybody, I really appreciate them!

By: Travis Megill

Travis Megill — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:01:03 +0000

Congratulations! I’m excited for you. Can’t wait to read more about the job as you acclimate.

By: Michael Abbott

Michael Abbott — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:33:52 +0000

Big congrats, David. As you know, Steve Meretzky is a game god Hero +20 in my book, so your decision to join Playdom makes perfect sense to me. All the best!!

By: Iroquois Pliskin

Iroquois Pliskin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:56:07 +0000

congrats on your new job David!!

much success to you in the future, it sounds like a crazy-exciting new line of work.

By: Matthew Gallant

Matthew Gallant — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:42:41 +0000

That’s exciting, best of luck with the new job!

By: Dan Bruno

Dan Bruno — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:04:32 +0000

That’s odd — I just read a blurb about Meretzky and Playdom in Edge #201 yesterday.

Congratulations and best of luck on the transition!