Emmanuel Pozo

LES ROCHERS SCULPTÉS DE ROTHÉNEUF

A Day in Saint-Malo (Northwestern France)

The Pair

I was sitting outside of a cupcake shop in SoHo, next to a pair of elderly people. I could not tell what their relationship was yet, but it was certainly familial. A few minutes later I learned that the two were mother and son.

Why my first startup in the Valley flopped

On May 1, 2011, I exchanged stability for variability: I quit my job at Zynga and began the journey of building a product and a company with my good friend Ben Bloch. We had good momentum and an excellent support team. We took a small friends-and-family…