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

That takes a real act of will.

And the more successful your company gets, the more you're invited to Davos and everything else.

And so often when I'm sitting in the audience and I'm listening to a CEO or I'm watching a podcast like this, I'm thinking, what's this person's agenda?

Why is Mark...

on this podcast right now.

Well, I'm trying to sell my book.

And I'm trying to, I want my book to, you know, hopefully a lot of people to connect with it.

So I think I have a clear agenda.

But if I wasn't, you say, well, why is Mark on this podcast right now?

Why is he spending the time doing this versus other things?

And, you know, I remember the MySpace founders, when MySpace got hot, just doing the worldwide circuit.

I remember...

Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, when Twitter got hot, they were all of a sudden on the world circuit.

And I thought, okay, this is fun for them.

And this is the first time in their career they've been recognized this way.

I doubt that that relates to their product and their customers.

I don't think they're getting more users from this PR tour that they're on.

And so it's a great thing to always ask yourself, like, am I being a fake CEO right now?

And fake CEO is just...

I like to think I don't mean to dish on anybody, but when I hear people giving talks about culture, especially when they're currently CEO, my fake CEO meter goes up, my alarm bells go off because I'm like, OK, if you're out lecturing about culture to people,

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