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

They've got that right now.

Anthropic.

I did the same.

I stupidly skipped the first two rounds.

I wouldn't say it's even that stupid.

You know, I skipped the $5 billion valuation and the $18.

And it was because at the time, nobody believed there was going to be room for a second LLM.

And I worried they wouldn't be able to raise enough capital to compete.

Then Amazon led that third round at like $20 billion.

And then it changed everything because they had clear access to capital.

Then the next round that I saw, I think, was 180 billion, and I just invested.

I was like, okay, I was wrong.

I'm just going to invest.

I'm not going to worry about the fact that I could have invested like 10x ago.

My pattern that I've learned in the last couple of gigantic platform shifts on the internet is that whatever we think, we will underestimate how big and profound and impactful it's going to be.

I don't think anyone even believed, really, 10 years ago that we would have multi-trillion dollar companies today.

I remember when all these companies were worth $300 billion, and that seemed like the cap.

Microsoft,

Facebook or Meta, Tencent and the company Alibaba.

And I would have theoretically believed they could 10X, but I wouldn't have...

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