Mark Pincus
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3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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And the game is I want to be prosecuting that with great teams.
And I hope to get back to the high that I had with Zynga of just this loop of every week coming up with ideas and working with great teams and then seeing them go out, learn and rinse and do it again.
if you're truly ambitious burn your resume you have all these amazing contrarian perspectives on how to build amazing products your instincts are right 95 of the time your ideas are wrong 75 of the time we've seen so many founders who just stoically heroically stick with a losing idea how do you know if this is just the wrong path you're following if you're asking whether or not your product is an a it's not an a when you have lightning in a bottle when you have true signal everything works
It's almost a moral arbitrage.
You became a founder, an entrepreneur, because you wanted to go be an innovator.
But you're trying to win the hearts and minds of nurses in Indiana, like for Farmville.
You're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
Define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer.
We have, beyond a latent demand for social, it's lost the adrenaline.
People are proud to tell you they're not on Instagram.
They're not missing the party.
If you want to reinvent social, look for where the cocktail is.
We know it when we see a great cocktail party.
You feel it, you're like, oh, I'm so glad I'm here.
Today, we're all hanging out on our clod, on our GPT, but there's no cocktail party.
My challenge to your listeners is figure out how to make it rowdy.
Sure.
Well, this is
a framework that we got to early on at Zynga and it became like a religion and the fundamental, the core
principles and engine behind how we did product management at Zynga.
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