Zynga Co-Founder Now in Marijuana Business

Tom Bollich left mobile gaming for cannabis

From FarmVille to marijuana land.

Zynga co-founder Tom Bollich left mobile gaming to become CEO of a marijuana startup, according to reports.

CNN Money brings us word of the latest venture for Bollich, who left Zynga in 2009.

He's now CEO of Surna, a Colorado-based company that makes "equipment used in growing commercial marijuana," the website reported.

He says that running a company that deals in legal weed "remind[s him] a little bit of Zynga."

Before, he worked on a product that relied on the platform of Facebook and on the whims of its daily users. "Now, we are at the mercy of the whims of politicians and voters," he told the website.

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