Don Mattrick living like a Saudi Prince after Microsoft departure

[ltheghost]

http://www.businessinsider.com/don-mattrick-zynga-ceo-2013-7

His home is the largest in British Columbia, Canada and it's worth $27 million. It has a 10-car garage, and it's filled.

When Laporte asked Mattrick how many cars he owned, he just smiled. She said, "A dozen?" He responded, "Ish." As in, he has a dozen-ish cars. The cars he owns include Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Lotuses.


Mattrick is a life-long gamer. In the '80s, he built "Test Drive," the first game that put gamers behind the wheel. At EA he led development of "The Sims." He is credited with commercializing motion-based technology in Kinect that was sitting around in Microsoft's research labs.

Now if we had to point at ONE person for the huge misteps Microsoft faced at the beginning of the Xbox One launch. It would be this guy..but damn...he is living the life after jumping ship...

I'm willing to bet he was the one who pushed for the Kinect being attached to the hip with the Xbox One...

 

[marcuz]

sony should thank him

 

[Rekkapryde]

sony should thank him

PS4 was gonna be more powerful and sell more regardless of the DRM and PR debacles he had.

But Golden Parachutes for the win

 

[ltheghost]

PS4 was gonna be more powerful and sell more regardless of the DRM and PR debacles he had.

But Golden Parachutes for the win

Hell yeah them Parachutes never seen any type of struggle! He is living that shyt up. "Yeah I bombed Xbox but my nikka.. I fly to work in my private jet...fukk them suckas...lol"

 

[ORDER_66]

this guy screwed over microsoft and living the life!

 

[chemicalsword]

son is like...

 

[Liquid]

He has always been a smart business man, but the xbox one launch was an absolute disaster.

He knew it wouldn't recover so he jumped ship. Smart that he did that to join Zynga, because if Zynga fails he can just say that it was already downhill.

Only the hardcore will remember that he was the head of XBOX in a few years...it will be those who have had to take the punishment post 2013 that will suffer more from it.

 

[ORDER_66]

He has always been a smart business man, but the xbox one launch was an absolute disaster.

He knew it wouldn't recover so he jumped ship. Smart that he did that to join Zynga, because if Zynga fails he can just say that it was already downhill.

Only the hardcore will remember that he was the head of XBOX in a few years...it will be those who have had to take the punishment post 2013 that will suffer more from it.

 

[Family Man]

Zynga is still around?

 

[ORDER_66]

Zynga is still around?

Stocks is horrible lately but they still around..

 

[TripleAgent]

I'd love to slap him...yeah, I'm salty.

 

[itsyoung!!]

Zynga is still around?

yeah you can see they offices right off the freeway when driving on 101 through SF


King/Candy Crush came by and fukked up they shyt tho

 

[killacal]

I'd love to slap him...yeah, I'm salty.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I'm shocked some lunatic Xbots haven't tried to hem this dude up yet.

 

[Los!]

I'm shocked some lunatic Xbots haven't tried to hem this dude up yet.

that hit probably out already