Mark Pincus

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

wrong.

And the same was true with my daughter that we finally figured out that she has this rare mutation.

But up until then, every doctor that confidently told us what it was, you know, was wrong.

So similarly, when people are that confident in their product, but they don't have product market fit, your bullshit detector has got to be higher.

Like, okay, this is hope.

There's a difference between hope and belief, right?

Belief is rooted, hopefully, in something.

I hope.

Hope is just rooted in hope.

Hope is not a strategy.

Hope kills a lot of

companies and founders, until you have kind of built a legal case, a factual case that beyond any reasonable doubt, you have product market fit, you need to be open to a lot of possibilities.

Yeah.

So tech assistants, I think the first CEO to have a tech assistant, I think, was Andy Groves.

I've never actually fact-checked myself.

But then Bill Gates did it and then Jeff Bezos did it.

And I got this as a hand-me-down secondhand because Bing Gordon was on the board of Amazon and he would give me all of these great management principles secondhand that he saw Jeff Bezos do.

Another one was never have one-on-ones with anybody.

And I would hear them and say, oh, shit, that's right.

And then I would just adopt them immediately.

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