Mark Pincus

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Sourcery · Mark Pincus: How to Build Billion-Dollar Products · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

As we realized you needed a continuous learning system that is, it's dynamic and living, and it's actually always interacting with everyone else in your company.

And so those have mine, which,

is shockingly doing well really quickly.

I guess not shocking, because everything AI is selling now.

But that was 100,000 foot level.

When I go deeper, like how do I think about things, I'd say I personally, there's like another paradox is that on the one hand, I really, my North Star is I want to create an internet treasure, a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without.

Like it's part of our life stack, indispensable.

It's like the iPhone or Google.

That's really, really ambitious.

And I know you can't start with that ambition.

You have to start with a really narrow use case.

And so how do you do both?

It's really hard.

So I'm willing to start with really small ideas.

Like Zynga started with a really small idea of one poker game.

But it pointed at a huge iceberg of...

can we get the mass market to play games, like busy adults to play games?

And can we do it by playing on a different dimension that we're making these games, we're letting you justify it more in your life because it's not empty calories, because it's social and it's a better use of your time than just pure entertainment.

And then also Emmett Shear told me, I interviewed him for the book, that it's good to be a little twitchy, you know, that the idea of just, am I into this idea?

Because the other thing that happens to us so often on this founding path is that we get, we're so excited, the team's excited, but then we go into kind of the despair or the just painful part where you're working on this product and it's like this death march.

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