Today will be my last day at Zynga, as I’ll be leaving to embark on a new adventure. I’ll be starting a new company with my good friend Ben Bloch (Foodspotting)
The last year and few months at Zynga have served as a tremendous learning experience. The gratification of writing, and architecting code that is served to millions of people everyday is tremendous and I will forever be grateful to everyone at Zynga that enabled me to thrive in such an environment. As bitter-sweet, and difficult as it is, the time has come for me to leave Zynga, and build my own product. We have some excellent people on our side and are ready to jump in and execute.
It’s very clear that social, mobile location based applications are on the rise right now, and building a solution to a problem in that space is what we intend to do. What we are going to make is a dead simple social utility for organizing and participating in spontaneous events. It could be gathering friends for Sunday brunch, or organizing a nice bike ride along the Embarcadero. The point is that we are going to facilitate these types of gatherings, and solve a lot of inherent group communication problems. Of course this is only the foundation, and many more avenues will be explored once this basic system is in place and proven.
I am very excited, and passionate about getting to work on our product full time. Now that it has our full attention we will be able to put the best effort forward in quickly releasing a kick ass product and building out our company’s vision. Expect updates and announcements in the next coming months, including the name of our company and a better idea of when we will release our private alpha.
If you are interested in working with us, or being part of the private alpha, you can hit me up on twitter or email me for more information.
Really loving this new single. Kind of forgot about them since “Return to Cookie Mountain”
The blogs has become a little stale, so I’m going to post one track a day. Let’s see how long I keep this up
I’ve been living in San Francisco for about 9 months and discovered some great food spots in the city. I thought I’d share my list of favorites, in no particular order.
Indian Dosa (Mission)
Udapi Palace (Vegetarian, Mission)
Mexican
Taqueria El-Farolito (Best Burritos, Mission)
Taqueria Cancun (Mission)
Papalote (Mexican, mission)
French
Chez Maman (French Bistro, Potrero Hill)
Chapeau (Richmond)
L’ardoise (Castro)
Fleur de lys (French, Union Square)
La Folie (Russian Hill)
Bistro Aix(Marina)
Brunch
Plow (Potrero Hill)
Mission Beach Cafe (Mission)
The butler and the Chef (South Park/Soma)
Cafe Flor (Castro)
Polkers (Polk/Russian Hill)
Burmese
Burma Superstar (Richmond)
Italian Calzones (North Beach)
Ristobar(Marina)
Tomaso’s (North beach)
Vietnamese
Slanted Door(Ferry Building Embarcadero)
Pizza Victor’s Pizza(Polk)
Georgio’s (Richmond)
Little Star (Mission)
Delfina (Mission)
Brasseries
Bar Jules (Hayes Valley)
Absinthe (Hayes Valley)
Amelies (Wine/Cheese, Polk)
Seafood
Tadich Grill (Russian Hill)
Swan Oyster Depot (Best oysters, Polk)
Anywhere in fisherman’s warf..
Mediterranean
Foreign Cinema (California/Mediterranean inspired, mission)
Ti-Couz (Mediterranean, mission)
King of Falafel (Lower Divisedaro)
Aziza (Geary area)
Japanese
Halu(Richmond)
Tokyogogo(Mission)
Zushi Puzzle(North beach)
Sushi Rock (Polk)
Spanish/Tapas Zarzuela (Tapas, Russian Hill)
Cha Cha Cha’s (Mission)
Peruvian
La Mar Cebicheria Peruana (Embarcadero)
Coffee/Tea/Desserts/Bakeries
Bi-Rite Creamery (Best Ice-cream, Mission)
Ritual Roasters (Coffee, Mission)
Anthony’s Cookies (Best Cookies, Mission)
Mitchell’s (Ice Cream/Mission)
Four Barrel Coffee (Mission)
Steps of Rome(Deserts, North beach) Bob’s Donuts (Polk)
Tartine(French Pastries, Mission)
La Boulange (Pastries, Fillmore/Russian Hill /other various locations)
Samovar Tea Lounge at Hayes Valley
Blue Bottle Coffee (downtown..)
Enjoy :-)
