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

I think he was 16.

And I said, sure.

And he came and he was awesome.

I don't know if he actually knew how to program Unix or not.

I still haven't actually ever gone back and asked him.

But he was...

a force even then.

And then he started Napster with the other Sean Fanning and emailed me about Napster and just said, we turn on these couple servers, this music sharing, and every server is full, and we need more money, and we need $100,000, and I just mailed them a check for $100,000.

Because, again, that was just...

a no-brainer.

You always send that check.

But, you know, and Napster could have been gigantic.

And I think that was the beginning of the whole social media, you know, wave and revolution, but just a bunch of years, a few years earlier.

And then...

And Reid and I had met while he was at PayPal around politics.

And then we both kind of came back to consumer internet in 2002.

There's a small number of people.

We both wrote the first checks into Friendster, which we just thought was like a useful experiment.

And then it started to blow up in February of 03, like a month after it launched.

And I guess it was in 04 that Sean walked Zuckerberg into my office at Tribe and said, you got to see this.

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