Mark Pincus

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

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TechStuff · This Founder's Failed Social Networking Site Led to a Multi-Billion Dollar Idea - The Story · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, it was actually cash flow positive a month after we launched poker, the first game.

So yeah, I put up $350,000 to start the company.

We were cash flow positive.

And we actually never needed any of the money that we raised all the way up to going public.

But I didn't know that.

And we kept doubling down and spending more and more.

But then our revenues and profits kept growing exponentially.

ahead of that.

And I will say a lesson I've got in investing that comes from Zynga is when you see these companies that are growing like that and they're beating their own numbers,

Yeah, we just need more servers.

What was standing in my way was...

self-realization that I'm not employable.

So once I accepted that, and I was probably undermining myself.

I mean, I know I was undermining myself in all these jobs, because I know at Columbia Capital, there was a path I could have gone down

to fit in to their culture we see that right we're like okay it's not me but i could adapt me you know i could dress more like they didn't have a dress code but they all dressed like in khakis and stuff you know and i was just in like beat up jeans and now it's normal the way i just but it was not then but

Yeah, I think I just was never...

cut out to fit into some corporate culture.

And I tried to... All of that shaped the way I created companies because I wanted cultures to not be so oppressive.

And I wanted to invite divergence.

I wanted to invite in...

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