Mark Pincus

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1,607 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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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

When we realize it's not it, we look for more things to do.

And it's such a hard lesson.

Two weeks ago, I pulled the plug on my dot earth project for like the fourth time.

I've been building my version of the metaverse for 20 years.

It's what led me to Zynga.

I call the metaverse that I want life at the speed of play.

We're getting closer and closer to that anyway with AI.

And by the way, I define the metaverse and I give Reid Hoffman credit for this definition as blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.

And that is where our lives are going anyway.

So we're getting more and more metaverse-ian.

It's not being in this other escape to immersive world.

It's that the virtual and the real completely blur together.

But I kept coming at it from the game side and I went native, not in the good way.

I got so into wanting to prove I could build this experience that I was building this browser-based game engine and I was not getting a product market fit.

I was being too ambitious.

I was not going for a small, small idea.

I was going for a really big idea.

And it was really hard and I pulled the plug on it after four years and $25 million in just this one version of it.

And in the last two weeks since then, I've been more inspired around ideas than I have been in four years.

So there is power in pulling the plug on a B plus and even more on a D.

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