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FarmVille's Bumper Crop: A Zynga Zillionaire

Posted by Shirley Brady on March 10, 2011 10:30 AM

Mark Pincus, the CEO of social game creator Zynga, is now a billionaire. What pushed him into Forbes' 2011 list of the world's richest — the virtual (and addictive) tilling and fertilizing that is FarmVille.

While Mafia Wars has been a hit for Zynga, too, it's FarmVille that has hooked Facebookers, venture capitalists and brands (such as Stouffers, above) to work on Markie's Farm.

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