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YC founder who sold OMGPOP to Zynga for $210M now building again
Credibility
Traction · 81th percentile
- OMGPOP was acquired by Zynga for $210M.
- Current founder — listed as Co-Founder of Storyboarder (YC W23) and currently working on a new venture.
- Picturelife raised $4.6M in total funding per SEC Form D and LinkedIn data.
- Picturelife was acquired by SmugMug in 2016.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Y Combinator alum — OMGPOP was part of YC's Summer 2006 class, and Storyboarder is a YC W23 company.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)OMGPOP was acquired by Zynga for $210M.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of OMGPOP (originally Iminlikewithyou), Picturelife, and Wonder Unit.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)OMGPOP was co-founded with Dan Albritton, confirming co-founder history.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Picturelife raised $4.6M in total funding per SEC Form D and LinkedIn data.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Current founder — listed as Co-Founder of Storyboarder (YC W23) and currently working on a new venture.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Picturelife was acquired by SmugMug in 2016.
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with h-index 5 and 215 citations across 10 works.
Investor score
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with portfolio companies including Atrium and Picturelife.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has made at least 2 known portfolio investments (Atrium and Picturelife) per Crunchbase.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)Investing activity traceable to at least 2012 based on Crunchbase records, giving approximately 1 year of confirmed investing experience before 2013.
What you likely need
You're a multi-exit YC founder with serious pattern recognition across social gaming, consumer apps, and interactive storytelling — Festival events should put you in rooms where that track record opens doors fast. The highest-leverage gatherings for you right now are small dinners with YC partners and pre-seed investors who can accelerate your next raise, plus intimate roundtables where you can sharpen your public narrative around the OMGPOP/Draw Something exit. You'd also benefit from curated intros to AI-native content and gaming founders where your product instincts are a genuine differentiator.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S06/W23 alumni founder dinner for warm intros to current YC partners and batch founders who can fast-track pre-seed conversations for your next venture
- positioningA small founder roundtable for multi-exit YC founders to workshop public retrospectives — anchored around stories like the OMGPOP/Draw Something $210M Zynga acquisition — that drive inbound from investors and collaborators
- fundraisingA pre-seed consumer founder dinner with 6-8 seed and pre-seed investors actively writing checks into social, gaming, and interactive storytelling to surface your next venture while your exit track record is top of mind
- tacticalA YC alumni micro-fund and syndicate roundtable for founders-turned-angels looking to formalize deal flow and structure their first syndicate or small fund off the back of an existing angel portfolio
- introsA happy hour for AI-native content, interactive storytelling, and social gaming founders — think Storyboarder, Wonder Unit, and adjacent YC W23 companies — where your product expertise in the space is a clear differentiator for partnership conversations
- positioningA build-in-public founder dinner for YC alumni who are between companies or announcing a new direction, to pressure-test public positioning and attract co-founders, early hires, and pre-seed investors
- tacticalA tactical office hours session for active angel investors with understated public profiles to get hands-on help surfacing deal history on AngelList, Crunchbase, and personal sites to increase inbound deal flow