Mark Pincus

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1,607 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

Mark Pincus’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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TBPN · MetaCloud, Bending Spoons IPO with Founder Luca Ferrari, Amble Founder Joins | Mark Pincus, Shubh Sinha, Wayne Ting, Jeffery Liu & Jon Wang, Eliot Pence, Luca Ferrari, Nick Grossman, Julian Hoenig · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

It's a bad user experience.

Now, what I would be okay with is what we did in the beginning of Zynga is I would go, I'd put up a link for some amazing new game you want to try, and it would go to 404 page not found because I was just testing for heat and interest.

Or eventually we got more sophisticated and say, you know, you'll be the first to know about this game, you know.

I had an experiment.

I would not to be...

completely carbon copy, but I would say don't become a product founder.

Don't do it if you want to make money.

Don't go be a product founder if you think this is the best path to

be, you know, rich and successful because it's, I end the book by saying, how ambitious are you?

And a lot of, you know, everyone says I'm an 11 on a 10 scale, right?

But then the question is, well, what, the flip side of that coin is what are you willing to sacrifice to get to that place?

Would you toil in obscurity for 10 years in order to have an 80% chance of the greatest home run, you know, of your life?

Or would you take kind of an 80% chance of a first base hit

in one to two years and most people would take the latter and that's why they stay in their jobs or careers or that's why even once we go found a company, I think we make all these compromises to de-risk it.

I'd like that.

I think you can pretty quickly, you guys have seen this too, get a sense of...

what's motivating somebody and why they're doing this.

And I think that the best founders have a passion for this that goes beyond this one business or opportunity and they need that because it's probably going to fail.

And so I think that...

There's a question like, why are some founders repeating success and some have won big success?

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