She took over as chief operating officer nine months ago, managing layoffs (including possibly RockYou's founder Lance Tokuda) while she successfully recruited new gaming talent starting with senior VP of games Jonathan Knight.
As Zynga expands the types of games it makes, it may need to bring in more traditional gaming talent.
If you are a top gaming talent, Kern tells me, they are hiring.
While none of those deals were huge acquisitions, they did cultivate a core of gaming talent in the Finnish community.
The company bought a roughly 40-person team called Spooky Cool Labs full of real-money gaming talent.
And this also means that there will be more competition from gaming talent in China and Chinese startups may not be so happy about that.
But with tons of gaming talent, Magic Leap could perhaps one day make must-see AR experiences that run on Google's hardware.
All this means the market for gaming talent in China is getting tighter amid all the interest, and Chinese startups can't be happy about that.
When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started Achievement Hunter we expanded heavily into let's play style gaming videos, and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.
While many American studios were busy copying Zynga's playbook, European companies with strong benches of gaming talent or deep repositories of titles like Supercell and King pulled ahead.
