Mark Pincus
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934 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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you know, all of us just sharing big ideas and stuff, but I wouldn't say that was the industry, but it was, you know,
It was like this kind of club, but it wasn't an exclusive club.
It was like, in a way, we were all outsiders.
I know now it seems like the insiders, but none of us were part of a branded venture fund.
None of us were part of a Sequoia Koretsu or a Kleiner Perkins.
None of us were at the Allen Conference.
It was just like...
we were all turned on by these same ideas and we all believed in consumer internet at a time that nobody else did and that was in 06 and then and then i i launched zynga in the spring of 07 just as a project i was living in an apartment in new york city and kind of nobody believed i was going to go back to work i was like
retired rich guy, kind of rich, you know, not like by these standards, but I'd had a bunch of successful companies.
I was in what I call the abyss.
But I wanted, I deeply, I had a passionate hunger for these consumer products and I wanted to get back to it, but I needed to
I needed to get to product market fit.
It's like, which comes first?
I start things as projects and then once they catch on and I dive in.
But it was funny because when I went to VCs in the beginning, I went to Fred Wilson, who's backed everything I've done.
And while I was in New York, I said, Fred, give me a million dollars and I'll give you 25% of the company.
He said, Mark, you know, I love you.
I'd back anything, but I just, I have a tough time believing that you're really going to like go back to work.
I'm like, okay, all right.
And then I met with Josh Koppelman and they had this deal at first round that they would give any second time founder 250K bridge note with a $10 million cap, sight unseen.
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