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

If today we start building, reimagining consumer services based on free tokens, I think that's such an interesting innovation zone.

And it could sound like a dot-com business plan when I remember ordering pig ears for my dog, Zynga, and wanting to send thank you notes to the VCs because they were cheaper than at Petco, right?

That's not a good business plan.

So giving away tokens at a loss isn't a good business plan.

But it might be in a phenomenal business because what the dot-com thing had wrong was the price of pig ears wasn't going to come down or delivery wasn't going to come down, but the price of tokens will.

And so I think that's another kind of Easter egg of an insight that I'm intrigued by.

And I think...

I think founders are going to do something really interesting with it because games don't work, freemium games and freemium apps that have to go and hit the AI.

Even if you wanted to spend on it, you're hitting token limits, right?

So getting around that today might unlock really interesting innovation.

And also just another Easter egg thought on the social cocktail party.

I love the idea of the agent being in the middle and brokering our social relationships and getting back to that lead gen, dating, jobs, general listings.

But I love the idea that the agent has our context and knows my context and your context

And we have this membrane, I call it the social membrane, this intelligent membrane of trust.

And it gets smarter and smarter at knowing when to change, dynamically change that trust or change that attention level that it's going to take from us, like a great chief of staff.

And it could share less information with both of us than it knows.

It could be you're in Marin and I'm like, Lenny, let's hang out.

You're like, Mark, I'd love that.

So, okay, let's have our social secretaries work on that.

There's going to be an asymmetry in your interest and my interest in any given weekend and hanging out.

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