Mark Pincus

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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

And Tribe was very viral and got a big audience quickly, much bigger than LinkedIn.

But I...

What I didn't see was how important trust was for mainstream internet users.

And they were just putting themselves on the internet and they didn't like the idea of strangers seeing them and contacting them.

But my business model, which was to be like Craigslist meets Friendster, the business model of Craigslist was at odds with that because to be a Craigslist listing, everyone needed to be able to contact everybody.

So what really worked on Tribe, and this is still an opportunity that's not explored that someone should go steal and use, is the value of the loose ties of these urban tribes, these psychographic, in some cases demographic, but interest-based tribes

groups that you have affinity groups.

And that's what tribes was that it was based on Ethan waters.

I think that's his name essay on urban tribes.

And that really worked.

I mean, people loved it.

They would be in the, the mission something tribe, or they had their burning man camps.

And so now you have these people, you have enough of an affinity to, um,

And that was enough to go to Brazil and somebody who knows someone from my Burning Man camp or from my Mission Freaks or whatever weird group had enough of an affinity for that social filter and lens to create a likeness and a connection for me with someone in Brazil that I've never met.

And so in a way it was like LinkedIn's two or three degrees away and that worked.

two problems with that.

One, I ignored it.

So that's a problem.

In the Paul Graham sense, I should have just focused on that one part and said, okay, that's working.

How do I be that?

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