Justin Waldron
Co-founder & President
at
Playco
Justin Waldron, a former co-founder of Zynga and current co-founder and CEO of gemz, and co-founder and President of Playco, is considered a pioneer in the social gaming industry. Within four years of its founding, Zynga had grown into a billion-dollar company and in 2011, it had its largest initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock market since Google. Waldron left Zynga in 2013 and is now an active angel investor and advisor to various technology companies in Japan and Silicon Valley. In 2021, he was named one of Business Insider's Top 100 Seed Investors.