Zynga recently posted a profit for its 2012 fiscal year, helped by the closure of a number of the company’s less successful games. Zynga COO Dan Ko says that these moves also allow the company to put its best talent in the right places.
“It’s around making sure that we have our best resources and our best leaders on the right teams so that, in essence, we can have the best shot on goal. We’re not saying it’s always going to go in the net, but we are saying that we want to increase our odds and always make sure we have the best shot on goal,” said Ko. “What we’re recognizing is that to do that, you have to make some of these tough calls. While it’s always hard to shut down games that are in progress or games that are live, those calls are made so we can better position ourselves to win in the long term. We’re not playing for the short term right now.”
“In the last few quarters, you’ve seen that we can be more disciplined in how we think about our costs and our expenses,” he added. “I think we’ve shown that. We’re going to make hard decisions because we want to make sure we’re investing our resources and our money in the right areas to create games that we believe will be franchises.”
Source: VentureBeat
