Playdom Co-Founder Investing in "Original IP" Social Gaming Startups
Rick Thompson is best known in the social gaming world for Playdom: He helped found the large social gaming company, was its first investor, and continues to serve as its chairman. But he’s recently started investing in small, up-and-coming gaming studios.
Before he got into social gaming, Thompson was a cofounder and a top executive at Adify, a “vertical ad network platform,” and before that, at FlyCast Communications, a direct-response advertising company. Both companies saw big exits and put Thompson in a good position to found or invest in more companies.
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