Zynga Redefines Cloud, Customer Service

摘要

In San Francisco's thriving South of Market district, one of the neighborhood's most recent additions resides in a huge building with a bulldog emblazoned in the center. It's the online gaming company Zynga. Founder Mark Pincus wrote Zynga's Hold'em Poker game at his kitchen table with his American bulldog, Zinga, sleeping at his feet. Zinga died three years ago of cancer, but the tradition of working with your dog at your side lives on at 650 Townsend St. Even in the IT department, called Global Foundation Services (GFS), bringing your dog to work is part of the unique atmosphere. CIO Debra Chrapaty has a direct, friendly manner as she shakes hands with a visitor, but she's all business as she heads into a conference room, whose door is blocked by a big, cream-colored German shepherd. The dog starts as she passes and she says authoritatively, "Be quiet, Tang." Tanqueray rests her head on her paws again.