Zynga, Suckerfish of the Internet
The casual game company should have jumped the shark.
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When I was a kid, and my parents took me to the aquarium, I made a bee line for the shark tank, thrilled that all that stood in the way of my violent demise was a six-inch piece of bullet-proof glass. One day, while I was chilling at the shark tank, I noticed something on the back of one of the sharks: a remora, a suckerfish that had hitched a ride just behind the dorsal fin of one of my swimming merchants of death.