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 it's such a terrific place to go because you don't have to prove people want to play games.
In this case, you just had to make it much more accessible to people and ask less of them.
Drop it where they are and ask them to play for 15 minutes and not have to learn anything.
I actually think it sounds paradoxical, but they actually do come together.
They are necessary.
If you think about when we were kids, we could play when we felt the most freedom.
And
And in a sense, in order for you to have freedom, you need control.
If someone else, if our parents were controlling our time and behaviors in those moments, we wouldn't have felt the freedom to really let loose and play.
And similarly, for us as creators and founders,
We start to learn the hard way what happens when we don't have control.
It's not fun.
It's not playful.
And we don't get to really explore our full expression and creativity.
And so if you have control, then you're guaranteeing yourself success.
open canvas or open highway for you to go for it and try whatever it is that you believe in.
And in a lot of ways, I think that the more control founders get, the more room there is to see people do really risky, audacious things because investors are
don't like risk.
You know, they want certainty.
They like upside.
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