Mark Pincus
speaker
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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And I think it is your commitment and willpower.
And if you have...
if you're more committed to, because we've talked about founder mode and there's all these moments where I think as a founder, we have to have real courage, but it's not courage to go against the world.
It's usually courage to go against our own team, our own investors, because we've promised them things.
We've built expectations with them.
And now we have to tell them we are wrong.
And you come in on Monday and you're like,
I just saw another product a competitor had last week and what we're doing is totally wrong.
And people have complained working with Mark is like third grade soccer.
Every Monday he wants to chase another ball.
And they're not wrong a lot of the time because I'm trying to be intellectually honest and I can burn people out that way.
But it's because I'm more committed to winning than I am kind of harmony or even keeping this team with me.
So I think that's more of the thread that I look for is, do I see that this person is more motivated by taking the hill and winning than being liked or respected?
You knew that you liked this product.
In feedback loops you got from people around you, you felt good about it and they liked it.
If it's not catching on yet, I think it's a marketing question and a patient's question.
That's different than you kind of feel in the pit of your stomach.
It's just not that good.
A lot of times we're so hopeful about a product we're building
And then when we finally see it, it's usually never as good in code as it was in our mind.
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