Mark Pincus
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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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it's the only reason that we were able to scale so quickly was because we were you know an app apps riding on top of facebook so at one moment you're on strategy for them and another moment you're not on strategy and that's life and it's their you know that's their right to do that i didn't
like the way they went about it, you know, kind of taking us in a dark alley and beating us up.
And in fact, the only reason that in the end they came back to the negotiating table with us is because at some point we realized that we didn't have any NDA signed between the two companies.
So we...
I don't know if we threatened this, but we heavily implied that there was nothing stopping us from taking their agreement they asked us for to sign and publishing it on the internet, which would not have helped their reputation.
Because they would have been seen to be bullying a small app.
when your lead app developer was just given... Put them over a barrel.
Yeah, a contract that says you're going to be captive to our company.
And nothing that you launch on Facebook can go anywhere else on the internet.
That might dry up interest in your platform pretty quickly.
Yeah, it was a very heroic, romantic moment for our company and scary.
But I knew it wasn't going to matter that Zuck and I were friends.
And at this point, I'd been to his wedding.
We were legitimately friends.
But he had such a sense of fate and destiny that nothing was going to get in the way of that.
And so if there was something about Zynga that was in the way, it didn't matter if we had a friendship.
I said...
It was more like he wouldn't take pleasure as he like pushed the sword into my neck.
I think what he wrote was so good that I was like, oh shit, I got to make the book better.
I ask myself that all the time.
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