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Could be good to hear from Dan Porter again.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...

I didn't understand your reference. Is the story here that (1) Shay Pierce wrote a column for Gamasutra about why he decided not to work for Zynga after they acquired OMGPOP?

And then (I had to dig in the comments) (2) as that column was circulating, OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter supposedly sent the Twitter message "What's so interesting about success is the number of failures who try to ride on your back. Shay Pierce is just one of many..."?

(The message was supposedly at https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/185901564131688448 but this is a dead link.)

What would you want to hear from Porter now?

It would be interesting to see if Dan Porter still considers OMGPOP a success under Zynga?! That flippant tweet should have not happened, considering that the sale was pretty much a very successful exit for Dan Porter but not necessarily a great success for any of the OMGPOP people.

The sale was a success for all people at OMGPOP. Dan and all the board members made sure of that. (this is not private knowledge)

The business by contrast appears to have been a complete failure - but at least they got paid?

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