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 even though we're in this chat app, it is not a platform for other apps and experiences and developers.

It could be.

I hope it becomes one, but it's not yet.

We're kind of like halfway to a platform.

We are in a point of discovery.

New technologies that break through at the consumer level unlock discovery.

That's really important.

Discovery means when we first got our phones,

we were installing new apps all the time.

Now we don't ever install new apps.

The average app installs per user per month is zero.

So it's really important to think about that, that not only are we not in discovery, but even when we are, it doesn't stick.

There was something like 40,000 new games launched last year in the App Store, and zero became top 10 hits, and zero even sustained top 25 or 50.

So your odds are bad.

Okay.

So it's not an ideal moment to be, you can't launch consumer right now with high confidence.

And that's just something that we have to acknowledge.

And it makes consumer and consumer categories like social and games almost not investable.

They're still getting investment,

but it's very hard.

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