Google Wunderkind Is Building a Secret Social-Gaming Startup
- Michael Sayman, 21-year-old ex-Facebooker, said to be leading
- Company will focus on mobile gaming with friends, Google says
Michael Sayman
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Google is secretly building a social-gaming startup, part of its effort to create fledgling companies within the internet-search giant.
The founder and co-owner of the new firm, called Arcade, is Michael Sayman, according to people familiar with the matter. Sayman is the 21-year-old wunderkind who started as a Facebook Inc. intern at age 17 and left that company for Alphabet Inc.’s Google last year. Arcade’s first app, slated to debut this summer, will have some elements of a trivia game.