Mark Pincus
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first heard Jun 2026
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And it's kind of the same mentality when we think about our apps or digital services.
Does it fit in your digital life stack?
It's very hard to get people interested in a new behavior.
So all these things...
make it very difficult.
And even if you get to something that does fit in the digital life stack, it turns out we need something that you're going to use every day and frequently or you're going to forget to come back to it.
And so you have to do all those things or
The way that I built Zynga was find a place that people are already hanging out, like everyone was hanging out on MySpace and Facebook.
Today, everyone's hanging out on GPT or hanging out on X, Twitter.
If you can create a service that is core to that experience where they're already hanging out, then...
they'll be reminded to keep using you every time they see it.
The core point of this is that you have to be thinking about this distribution and mindshare lockstep as you try to invent your product.
The idea that you're just going to make a better mousetrap and the world is just going to come to you, it might work.
It's just extremely low odds.
What we figured out, trying to survive in a lot of ways, this...
App ecosystem, these app ecosystems that evolved on MySpace and Facebook and the other social networks were a precursor to what mobile is today.
So there was an app economy and you were trying to live and survive on someone else's platform as just an app.
And it was fleeting.
And what all our competitors at the time, like Max Lefchin, who was on United Slide, they were the big dogs on these social networking services.
And they had huge virality.
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