Mark Pincus

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932 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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My First Million · Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

But my point is, the way that he was talking about things were like, don't you get that this is in the way of the destiny and the fate of this company?

So you can't stand in the way because...

This is fate.

You're in the way of fate.

I talk about this in the book that there's pattern matching around lightning in a bottle.

And it's every metric and anecdote comes back to this.

The reason why...

we don't pattern match that is because we usually haven't seen it.

And this is where B plus the enemy of an A, if you have to ask somebody, do you think this is lightning in a bottle?

It ain't lightning in a bottle.

You know, when you've got it, you don't have to ask anybody.

It's like true love.

I mean, it's like, I hope you guys, you know, have experienced that kind of love that you didn't have to ask anybody else

if they thought this was the one.

And there's so many things.

I mean, Napster didn't have to ask anyone.

Friendster didn't have to ask.

And Friendster was like, I thought it was the most unlikely thing when we funded it.

But then I was sitting at a blackjack table at the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas, and there were these two girls from, they were like,

maybe post-college from Ohio and sitting next to me as one finds themselves in Vegas.

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