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

And in some ways, that's Reddit,

And then the other problem, though, with that is that for that loose ties concept to work, you still need people to be able to see and connect with people that are not in their networks.

And so that's violating that trust thing.

So you're still going to have the membrane of trust there.

Being very difficult to get right.

So, you know, it ends up being a lot of mainstream women getting, you know, undesirable interest from a lot of men.

So, you know, which comes off in the form of dick pics.

Yeah.

So anyway, that was a big miss with Tribe.

But it was the right instinct.

Yeah, $38,000 again.

Yeah, yeah.

Hopefully you kept some of it.

The only sliver I kept was what I put in my kids' accounts eventually.

I know I wouldn't have gotten to Zynga if I hadn't done Tribe first.

Because when we were doing Tribe, we were thinking there's going to be this massive competition on plugins.

We call it plugins, but APIs.

We thought there's going to be these video services and games and all these other things.

We were right to some degree.

We said, we'll never be able to keep up with the other social networks.

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