Mark Pincus

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga) · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

I'm in the middle of relearning that lesson myself right now.

And I would say,

There's so many paradoxes in this, and one that I've had to learn over and over again is if we're too ambitious and we're at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we want to build, then we will probably miss product market fit because we won't start at a small enough, humble enough place because it –

Usually the starting point for these products is embarrassingly small.

So many of these massive hit products or franchises started with such humble, non-ambitious places.

The Facebook was just an app to check out

girls and guys at Harvard, right?

And the irony for me is that I've found that my career has gone in these waves and maybe some of your other founders have had this experience too, that I've started in a very humble place of, I just want to get to anything, any product market fit.

had bigger success than I imagined I would have in my first two companies, Freeloader and Support.com.

They both started with very, very small, humble premise.

And then afterwards felt like now I can do anything.

And I know Elon is the exception to the rule.

Part of it is I think he can raise...

magical unlimited amounts of capital, which helps, and he does not start in humble places at all.

But for the rest of us mortals, I'd say that we tend to, after success,

feel the need to do something bigger the next time.

That's human instinct.

And we want to be more ambitious.

And so when I got to Tribe and I saw social networking and LinkedIn was just starting and I saw how big the opportunity was, I tried to do everything with Tribe.

It was really ambitious and I didn't pick...

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