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FarmVille合作开发者Sizhao Yang加入新兴公司BetterWorks

发布时间:2010-12-27 13:26:31 Tags:,,,

最近,热门Facebook游戏FarmVille原班开发人马其中之一的Sizhao Yang任职于新兴公司BetterWorks,致力于开发“有益的工作环境”。

据游戏邦了解,Yang曾经是虚拟世界新兴公司MyMiniLife的合作创办者兼首席执行官,其领导的团队与Zynga公司合作开发了热门社交游戏FarmVille。2009年8月,即FarmVille游戏发布后不久,Zynga收购了MyMiniLife公司,因此作为MyMiniLife创办者的Sizhao Yang也加入到Zynga的开发团队之中。随着游戏逐渐发展壮大,FarmVille成为了Zynga公司的标志性游戏。也正由此开始,不少评论家认为Zynga公司抄袭他人的游戏创意。

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据Yang的Linkedln页面信息显示,他是在2010年11月离开Zynga公司加入到BetterWorks公司担任运营总监兼财政总监的。目前,BetterWorks公司的运营仍处于隐秘状态,因此Yang和公司创办者兼首席执行官Paige Craig均表示目前谈论公司产品还为时尚早。据游戏邦了解,目前BetterWorks公司正在开发一款“为商人营造优质工作环境”的产品。

另外据游戏邦了解,Yang和Craig均是天使投资者,而该公司的第三位合作创办人George Ishii同时也是新兴公司Geni的合作创办者。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Is your job about to get a lot more addictive? Maybe — Sizhao Yang, one of the original team members behind insanely popular Facebook game FarmVille, is working on a new startup called BetterWorks that wants to create “rewarding work environments.”

Yang was co-founder and chief executive of virtual environment startup MyMiniLife, whose team worked with Zynga to develop FarmVille. In August 2009, shortly after FarmVille started to take off, Zynga acquired MyMiniLife, and the company’s founders joined the Zynga team. And FarmVille has continued to grow, becoming Zynga’s flagship title and also one of the main targets for critics who say Zynga is little more than a copycat. (CityVille finally unseated FarmVille this week as Zynga’s biggest game.)

According to  Yang’s LinkedIn page, he left Zynga in November 2010 to join BetterWorks, where is he’s serving as the chief operating officer and chief financial officer. The company is still in stealth mode, so both Yang and co-founder/CEO Paige Craig said it’s too early to talk about the product. On its web site, the company says it’s working on a product that “allows business owners to create rewarding work environments quickly, easily and affordably.”

Yang and Craig are both angel investors, while George Ishii, the third co-founder, was the a co-founder of Geni, the startup that eventually became micro-blogging service Yammer. The company is based in Santa Monica, Calif. (source: Venturebeat)


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