tom giles is with bloomberg business week and kim mcnicholas with "forbes." i say $763 million give or take a bit. that's the high end number. there were several venture capital firms involved in this. but that's still a staggering, staggering number for any company much less one that makes this. >> this wave of social games has really taken off. >> $763 million. >> you have 275 million sold to electronic arts and they had visitors. seriously. >> i am always happy to take credit for other people's work and in this case the work was the guys that were building the company and the ceo did a terrific job of taking a company that had 30 employees when he started there about a year and a half ago and built it to this amazing organization. 300, 400, 500 people that disney saw the value in. it's been a terrific story. been a terrific ride. we couldn't be happier to be supporters of the company. >> another social gaming company when you look at their value on second market is up in the billions. i want to say in the neighborhood of 4. will we look back in a couple ye

our reporters are tim nichols and tom giles, this week on "prees he "press here." >> good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. you probably had that day at work when you decided you knew what was wrong with your company and how to fix it. turns out many bosses don't want to hear it. giving you a choice, you can drop it or make it your manifesto. >> i entitled it the things we think but do not say. >> as the fictional sports agent, jerry mcguire found out -- >> that's how you become great, man. >> manifestos usually do cause a change at the company. mainly, the manifesto author does not stick around to see that change. >> what are they doing? >> they fired jerry mcguire. >> the peanut manifesto written by garlghouse, comparing it peanut butter spread too thin by too many efforts. it was picked up by the press for its unflinching accurate portrayal of a company in trouble. garlghouse actually stayed for two years following the manif t manifesto leading a mass exodus in 2008. now, he's at a company with even bigger problems, america online. once an internet giant, they suffered through a disast