Amitt Mahajan co-created FarmVille and served as Zynga's CTO, giving him rare experience in building massive social games that he now applies to evaluating VR/AR startups at Presence Capital. He started as a hands-on engineer before becoming a venture investor, and he directly uses lessons from scaling Facebook games—like fast iteration and user retention—to help immersive technology companies grow. Amitt Mahajan co-created FarmVille and served as Zynga's CTO, giving him rare experience in building massive social games that he now applies to evaluating VR/AR startups at Presence Capital. He started as a hands-on engineer before becoming a venture investor, and he directly uses lessons from scaling Facebook games—like fast iteration and user retention—to help immersive technology companies grow.