Mark Pincus

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

So it came from these fundamental beliefs.

We had principles like rules of the internet.

Like if it can be free, it will be free.

Especially around data.

And we said data at the time was locked up.

And we said...

There was a new concept to APIs.

We said, wow, the data can be free.

The data wants to be free.

The business model at the time was pay for access to a database.

And this idea that led to the start of Napster

and led to Friendster and LinkedIn and Facebook and Twitter was, okay, what would it look like if we just enabled all of the people to connect to each other directly?

And even if there's a database involved, the friction just goes away completely.

There's no business.

There's no hard gate or paywall like monster.com or dating apps because it can be free.

It is free.

Yeah, yes.

So Reed and I put up all the original money for Friendster as like a science experiment.

We didn't think it would work.

I put up all the original money for Napster because Sean Parker worked for me as an intern when he was 16.

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