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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He played CityVille.
He spent $550 in the game.
And then he said, I'm so sorry, I was wrong.
I get it why adults would spend money in your games now.
Because remember, there was no in-app purchase yet.
And so all of the adults were like, there's no way adults are paying money for art.
But we had...
A nurse in Indiana spending a couple thousand dollars a month in Farmville, and this was her hobby, and maybe her husband was spending more than that to go fishing and skiing and hunting.
This was her hobby, and so we reframe this as we are helping to nurture a hobby somebody has, and this is a small amount to spend on a hobby.
Whereas, you know, for a video game, it was a lot.
And I did not do myself any favors.
I did not go on press tours.
I didn't talk to investors.
I said, I'm going to be selfish to our users and our employees.
I'm not going to talk to anybody else ever.
My kids...
my players, my employees.
And so everyone else told the story and we fired a lot of people and they were out telling our story because I had a meritocracy, a force curve.
We forced you to rate 10% of your team as a low performer every quarter.
And if you were two quarters in a row, you're fired without question or exception.
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