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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If you can have a successful product
I don't want to sound anti-innovation, but people don't like change.
If you take a behavior they like, but you make it much more accessible or something much more fun about it, like in the case of Slack, people love that even more.
In the Peter Thiel sense, it's almost a moral arbitrage because.
There's something in our gut as a product maker.
You became a founder, an entrepreneur, because you wanted to go be an innovator.
And so it can feel like a beatdown that your path to innovation starts with copying other people's work.
And we were taught in school copying is cheating.
So there's a lot of good...
reasons why we've built this kind of moral resistance to copying.
But that also makes that opportunity in some ways more available for people who have less ego involved.
And I like to say, and I said this too,
my product makers at Zynga, if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume.
And if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
You're trying to win the hearts and minds of nurses in Indiana, like for Farmville.
you're going to define innovation differently.
And you're not going to worry about whether you're going to take the best ideas wherever you can find them if they are in service of giving her
an experience that she loves more.
If all you did was copy, there's no reason for her to choose your product.
But if you took something that she loves and you make it one inch better, she might love that more than if you showed her something she's never seen before and didn't wake up knowing that she wanted.
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