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December 16, 2011

Zynga's IPO Doesn't Play Fair

Gary Rivlin, The Daily Beast


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The company that produces such wildly popular social-network games as FarmVille and Words With Friends goes public on Friday, and founder Mark Pincus gets a class of stock all his own—stock that lets him keep control of an ostensibly public company.

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