Draw Something Boss Leaves Zynga

<p>Once amazingly popular&comma; now not so popular&comma; Draw Something was always going to be a difficult purchase to justify on Zynga&&num;8217&semi;s part&period; At one point&comma; the company was making up to &dollar;250&comma;000 a day when it was at its peak of popularity and thus Dan Porter&&num;8217&semi;s company &&num;8220&semi;OMGPOP&&num;8221&semi; was purchased for &dollar;210 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since then however&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s made a net loss of &dollar;209&period;4 million in 2012 which is somehow surprisingly better than the &dollar;404&period;3 million loss the company made in 2011&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This all leads up to the present day where Dan Porter has essentially left his own company after being purchased by Zynga&period; Dan Porter&&num;8217&semi;s role within the company was to serve as vice president of Zynga&&num;8217&semi;s New York office after his company was purchased&comma; although he will now be replaced by Sean Kelly&comma; the executive of both CityVille and FarmVille&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usatoday&period;com&sol;story&sol;tech&sol;gaming&sol;2013&sol;04&sol;02&sol;zynga-omgpop-porter-leaves&sol;2047025&sol;">USA Today<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-04-03-draw-something-studio-boss-quits-zynga">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;a8ad754e-c417-4308-8b26-2a9487d16ae3" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;