Mark Pincus
speaker
932 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Mark Pincus’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, what I Googled about you was so bad.
When I first started dating my partner, Hillary, I said, just do both of us a favor.
Just don't Google me because you're not going to like anything you read.
I don't even think I found my black t-shirt yet.
No, it's... I was telling this before that
All I cared about was winning.
All I cared about... And winning was in the eyes of a teenage girl or a middle-aged woman who wanted to play one of our games.
And they weren't going to read this.
They're not reading the Wall Street Journal.
I hired a PR firm to keep us out of the press.
And when we were in the press, to dampen down the story.
Because I just...
We had figured something out with user pay and I didn't wanna go announce it to the world and we were just trying to win as many sprints as we could before inviting a lot of competition and venture.
We were buying a company every month.
A lot of the companies we bought, you know, no one else was bidding on them.
You bought the company that became Farmville, right?
Well, not really.
The real story is that I couldn't get anyone in Zynga to build Farmville because they thought it wasn't cool.
They wanted to build like Coasterville, Cafe World, and nobody in video gaming wanted to make a farm simulation game.
That was not, there was nothing less cool.
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