Mark Pincus

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934 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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

And it's not fun.

And you kind of lost the excitement.

You're not even that into your product.

You finally produce the prototype.

And it just isn't that good.

And you're just, now what do I do?

I've got investors and a team.

And I like to think that I love the concept of founder mode.

And

For me, the real gestalt of founder mode is can you have enough faith in yourself and your instincts to take these really hard positions that are really unpopular?

Not just with your investors, but how about with your team?

I mean, I think one of the most courageous things Jeff Bezos did was in that book.

It was so good.

Brad Stone's book is called...

Like the un-store, the un- Anyway.

But Brad Stone had a great book.

Everyone should look it up and read it.

But the most courageous thing, the story from that was when he had this instinct to launch Amazon Prime and he wanted it to be this subscription service

But his CFO and everyone said it doesn't make sense, like the numbers don't work.

But he had this instinct, which he built by seeing the way people were addicted to Costco.

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