Mark Pincus

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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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Why did you want to make it?

I wasn't from video gaming.

I had a farm fantasy.

I wanted to create Pincus Valley Ranch and have our vegetables served at Chez Panisse.

So I had that fantasy, and I have four sisters, and I feel like I really connect with middle-aged women.

I'm like, I don't want Twitch fast-moving games.

I want something I don't have to pay any attention to.

I don't have to pay any attention to a farm.

I wanted that game, and I thought that would be the game that could appeal to anyone in the world because nobody needed instructions on how to play.

Bing won't admit it, but he tried to convince me not to build it, even from a business standpoint.

He was like, farm simulations never do well, Mark.

And I finally bought this little failed Flash gaming company because they had four Flash engineers.

And then I put them and like four or five other people in an alcove outside my office and checked in with them every day.

And we built Farmville together in six weeks.

Did it come out the gate hot?

You know, we were going to buy this company that made Farm Town, and the guy was, to be honest, kind of a jerk.

And he had the right to be a jerk.

He was winning.

I think he doubled the price he wanted from like $40 million to $80 million.

And he had the right.

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