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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I don't know if I get credit for, you know, making up that quote, but I love it.
Kill hope before hope kills you.
It's there's a difference between belief and hope.
Hope is confidence without basis.
Hope is just, it's a prayer, but it's not founded in anything that your lived experience.
It's not founded in your experience with your product, your experience with people,
experiencing your product and the data.
I think that too many founders and teams keep going with the hope that this next release is going to do something magical.
I think that the best product makers, I like to say they're collecting winnings, they're not making bets.
They already know
If you talk to Brian Chesky about his launches, he already knows that he has a hit.
He's not launching it to find out if people like it.
I talk about the difference between launching an MVP, a minimum viable product, and a maximum launchable product.
If we're going off hope, we're getting to this MVP, minimum viable.
The viable is the word we got to kill along with hope because viable is where hope comes from.
If it's viable, it might make it.
And there's a difference between...
Get in the market early, learn.
You're putting a product out that you're going to learn from, and you're putting a product out that you're going to launch, that you think, you believe, not hope, is going to be a hit.
And it's really important to be crisp and to make that distinction.
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