Mark Pincus

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

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Every single person, when I looked at their profile, had their cell phone.

And at the time, it connected to their computer.

They had this product called Wirehog, I think, that was like Napster, that would upload every file and music and things from your computer.

And I was failing so miserably with Tribe that...

Well, Tribe was also a social network.

from doing, because it really is like a friend who's just in a bad relationship and you're like, he's just not that into you.

Stop it.

Just have some dignity.

You could go back and shake me when I was doing Tribe and say, Mark,

You're, there's so much like in this, stop just sticking heroically to this one idea that's too complicated, got trust wrong and it's not working.

And there were probably 10 social networks that launched in that era and eight were successful.

Like, you know, Bebo was around that time, you know, Michael Birch, he was, he sold for a lot of money to AOL as you know, tagged, later MySpace.

And I managed to fail with Tribe, like, because I just stuck to one idea when everything was working.

And so by the time Zuckerberg and Sean walked in my office,

I knew enough to invest.

I should have copied them.

I mean, I should have said, okay, they've nailed trust.

I don't necessarily have to do the .edu, although it was brilliant and I could have done it.

But I think like so many founders, I was stuck in this pride and didn't do... Peter Thiel would call that a moral arbitrage, right?

That we don't feel good about that, right?

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