Zynga Moving into Spacious New SF Headquarters

Published: Sep 25, 2010
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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That was way cool news about online game creator Zynga leasing 270,000 square feet of office space in downtown San Francisco, four blocks from CalTrain and five blocks from AT&T Park, where the Giants call home.

The company also plans to hire up to 2,000 more employees to go with its current 1,200. That’s a sweet news story for the local economy.

Zynga, as you might already know, develops games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, and the like for Facebook users. The Station has learned from an inside source at the company that it is hauling in upwards of $7 million per day, with a high percentage of that going to its online host, Facebook.

Hmmm. This may be one reason how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is able to give $100 million to Newark, N.J. schools.

So, you say: What does this have to do with a storage blog? Nothing directly. But if we have to justify the topic in this space, we’ll just say that, well, Zynga has a LOT more storage space to use in its new 270K-square-feet office.

Chris Preimesberger

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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