????近日,社交游戲公司Zynga對管理層大動手術。目前距離該公司計劃的上市日期僅剩幾周時間。 ????最受人關注的調整要數首席商務官歐文?凡?納塔宣布離職,納塔于去年初加盟Zynga,此前他曾在MySpace和Facebook擔任高管職位。納塔將保留Zynga董事會職位并將繼續擔任顧問,負責公司重要戰略合作伙伴關系。不過(據公布的過渡通知函稱)由于離職,納塔將損失超過價值460萬美元的限制性股票認購權。 ????我的理解是,不會有人來填補首席商務官這個空缺,而且實際上早在幾個月前,凡?納塔就開始著手縮減其日常工作量。此外,該職位的工作基本上已經被首席運營官約翰?沙佩特和首席營收/營銷官杰夫?卡爾普接管。 ????Zynga還宣布風險投資家布拉德?菲爾德將離開董事會,菲爾德旗下的公司是Zynga最早的投資者之一。菲爾德這么晚才離開,真是讓人吃驚。當然,更讓人吃驚的是,像菲爾德這樣的早期投資者竟然至今一直呆在Zynga董事會。取代菲爾德的是電子郵件公司Brightmail前首席執行官蘇尼爾?保羅,后者曾和Zynga首席執行官馬克?平克斯一起創立過新創企業FreeLoader。 ????千萬不要認為這些重大變化更會影響Zynga首次公開募股(IPO)的進程。畢竟已經有先例,馬格?喬治愛迪斯(前谷歌高管——譯注)在9月底空降團購網站Groupon成為其首席運營官,但這似乎并未影響到該公司的股票定價。 ????還有一條非管理層的新聞,根據美國證券交易委員會(SEC)的要求,Zynga對分割用戶預支費用的方式做了微調,此后將按照季度進行統計,而不是年度。 ????譯者:項航 |
????Zynga has made some major changes to its management team, just weeks before the social gaming company is expected to go public. ????The most notable move is the resignation of chief business officer Owen Van Natta, who joined the company early last year after stints at both MySpace and Facebook. He will remain on Zynga's board and continue to advise on major strategic partnerships, but the resignation costs him more than 4.6 million in unvested stock options (according to this transition letter). ????My understanding is that the role of chief business officer will not be filled, and that Van Natta actually began cutting back on his day-to-day workload several months ago. Instead, the position's responsibilities have basically been assumed by chief operating officer John Schappert and chief revenue/marketing officer Jeff Karp. ????Zynga also announced that Brad Feld, a venture capitalist whose firm was among Zynga's original investors, is stepping down from the board of directors. Surprising that it's happening so late, although perhaps less surprising than that an early-stage VC like Feld was still on the board in the first place. He will be replaced by Sunil Pau, the former CEO of Brightmail who once co-founded a startup called FreeLoader with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus. ????Don't expect any of this to significantly impact the company's IPO prospects. After all, Margo Georgiadis stepped down as Groupon's COO in late September, and it didn't seem to affect the company's ability to price. ????In non-management news, Zynga also made a slight modification to the way it breaks down payer bookings, per request of the SEC. It now does so by quarter, rather than by year. |
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