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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And we had lots of competitors, lots, and copying, and we still managed to keep winning.
And so it couldn't be that we were just spammier or better at virality.
First, we had this core mission and focus around connecting the world through games.
And Bing Gordon and I kept coming back to this idea that I love and I want...
your founders, product makers watching this to join me in thinking about, which is how can we add more dimensionality?
I love this idea of it's what I call a bold beat.
It's how do I take this thing that's kind of gotten boring and rote, poker or whatever,
How do I add a whole new dimension to it?
And by adding social, by adding real identities, by giving you this, you're doing social networking, you're in this cocktail party, and now we're giving you a way to actually meet new people or improve your relationships in a game.
The reason why...
people, so many, especially middle-aged women, love Farmville and these games was because they had this kind of hobby, but they weren't doing it alone.
And they were doing it with their good friends, making new friends.
And in the game, our most successful features were co-op play.
There were things that let you...
do gifting and do things of you know value to your for your friends and so we called the games invest express and connect you could do something that was you were being seen as creative i like to say people don't want to be creative they want to feel creative so we were letting you
feel creative, look creative to people.
It's what mid-journey does for me today.
And then we were letting you, so you were expressing yourself and then you were connecting with people around it.
So that was the first thing.
And then if you think at a mechanical metric level, our core metric was retention, not virality.
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