Mark Pincus
speaker
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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They were a brutal platform.
They ate everything around them.
And then with us, we saw it on Facebook.
The two areas that they just didn't care about going into was music because it was really painful with IP rights and games because they didn't want to hire artists.
But everything else they did absorb.
All my management principles I got to through desperation.
I don't like managing people.
I say every day you're managing people is a day of work.
And it's a necessary evil for us as product makers because we can't abdicate and just have someone else be CEO because...
all of a sudden the priorities get messed up and teams don't have to listen to us and we're now feedback, not direction.
So that's a failing path.
So we have to be a CEO, but then the question is, how do we get to spend the most time doing what we love and the least time doing what we don't?
The bigger principle to me that I started to get to was that, oh, I'm like, all of management is just how do we get people to do the right thing when we're not in the room?
So I was like, okay, if I give them a hill to take and if I make them a CEO, make them a real CEO.
I mean, they have operating control, degrees of freedom to take that hill however they want.
And they can give me a plan, a budget, and then do whatever they want within that.
What I found was I didn't have to manage them.
So they're not coming back to me with questions.
And certain kinds of people really want to be a CEO.
What I also found was it was incredibly motivating for people.
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