Alisa Chumachenko is a Russian entrepreneur.
Chumachenko graduated from the Russian Academy of Theatre Art in 2004 with a degree in Art Direction. [1]
In 2010, she founded "Game Insight", a company building online games.[ citation needed ] In 2015, she stepped down as CEO of Game Insight. In 2017, she founded GOSU Data Lab, a company using machine learning to provide data to gamers and games companies. [2] By 2018, GOSU Data Lab had raised $2.3 million. [3]
"The hardest thing to overcome is yourself. The next game always has to be bigger than the previous one. That’s what I think about every day" [1]
Mark Jonathan Pincus is an American Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. Pincus served as the CEO of Zynga until July 2013, then again from 2015 to 2016.
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