The NFL is very good at public relations (or what naysayers would call propaganda.) Goodell, according to Van Natta, Jr.
When Owen Van Natta came in as CEO in the summer of 2009, he gave valuable employees a two-part retention bonus.
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Goodell, coming off an in-depth profile by Don Van Natta, Jr.
"We're focused on creating cool new ways to entertain and surprise our players, " said Owen Van Natta, Zynga's executive vice president of business.
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First Pincus lost Owen Van Natta, who had worked at Amazon ( AMZN) and Facebook ( FB) and left Zynga just weeks before its IPO.
"It's a way to really judge their character" Van Natta says.
Van Natta reportedly left because he wanted to be chief executive of Facebook, but Zuckerberg, who is only 23, doesn't appear to be stepping down anytime soon.
Sandberg's appointment as chief operating officer at Facebook comes a month after the company announced that Owen Van Natta, its chief revenue officer and former COO, would be leaving.
Godskind says that response time is not probably not the biggest concern of the moment for MySpace, which has been losing users and momentum to Facebook and Twitter, and just saw the resignation of chief executive Owen Van Natta in February.
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John Kennedy, who according to Van Natta was the most accomplished golfer ever to occupy the Oval Office (despite chronic back problems), kept his affection for the game under wraps to create a more youthful image than that which clung to his beloved predecessor, the truly golf-besotted Dwight Eisenhower.
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"One of the reasons I always liked golf is because the rest of my life is going at breakneck speed and everything had to be done fast and this is the place where I had to slow down, " Clinton told Don Van Natta Jr. in "First Off the Tee, " the definitive book about presidents and golf.
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