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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We usually are too ambitious.
on the new.
And so better could be it's now free.
There's no download.
There's something that you can both statistically show works, you know, is better and every user would say yes to.
And usually it's very small and it's polished and it's things that intense users, power users
will notice the most.
And in our game Words with Friends, it was Scrabble, but if it was just Scrabble, why was it a massive hit with 14 million DAUs and Scrabble itself wasn't, right?
There must've been something better and novel about it, but it had...
Such a polish for mobile was the better and the new.
What's the novel new idea, the back of the box idea that's going to get people to download and try it?
And in the case of Words With Friends, it was social.
It was your friends are just, it was attached to the Facebook graph and your friends are just already there to play with you, which was a new idea.
Even that, which you'd think, of course I want,
you might not get 10 out of 10 people saying yes.
And we have to accept that that new idea is probably going to fail.
It's a reason to try it for people, but it's probably going to fail.
And if we do proven better new right, the product has much better odds of succeeding in the market, not failing for the wrong reasons.
And if we start with the premise that the new is probably not right and we've got four other new ideas ready to test, then we just prosecute it in a different way.
And I like to think if you do proven better new right, it's like a time machine because
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