Mark Pincus

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

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But we were building our own version and we took out some of the things we didn't like in his game.

So ours was not proven better new, it was proven better less.

So our crops were better than his, our art and math were better.

And we had more polish, but that was it.

And we took out the stranger danger part.

He had ways to meet other community members, and we just thought our users didn't want that.

So we turned it on.

I said, on a Friday, I had this tough call with him.

I said, you know, I don't think this is going to work.

We're not going to buy you.

And in our game, our team was like, Mark, this is ready to go.

And so then on Sunday, we turned on Farmville.

And it was one of those lightning in a bottle things that...

For some reason, so many things with Zynga just worked, which isn't great to hear, because how do you repeat that?

But we turned on FarmVille, and I think it did like 171,000 installs the first day with no marketing.

It was just viral.

It just was viral.

And we were doing like a million installs a day by the end of the first week with no marketing.

And we passed Farmtown within like three or four weeks.

They were at like 4 million DAUs.

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