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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They like upside, but they like certainty even more than upside.
I mean, they say they want upside, but they'll take a guaranteed 3x.
You know, most of them...
over a very small potential of 100x.
Some may argue with me, some might be right.
And as you get to be more and more capital, you might say that there's seed investors that are fine with that, but they also have a model that assumes a huge loss rate.
By the time you get to growth investors, public market investors, you're looking at almost a zero tolerance for a loss rate.
Confidence allows you to play.
Confidence is a part of it, but it also gives you degrees of freedom.
And it's not a lot of fun to play if you're told you can do anything you want between this one foot wide expanse.
If it's infinite, do whatever you can imagine, that's a lot more creatively exciting and has more potential.
And
As a founder, you need the freedom to make very, very hard decisions and bet the company decisions.
And you feel that you have less and less of that freedom as you have more and more constituents.
more employees, more investors, higher stakes in this, more, you know, people have more to lose.
You're carrying a bigger responsibility and you're kind of going to war to be your best.
You can't
worry about, you can't be sitting there on the front lines worrying about the people that aren't gonna like this decision if you believe this is the best decision.
It was a double-edged sword for me with my dad and control because I saw him in building his business.
He had a nationwide financial PR firm, Investor Relations.
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