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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passionately believe is the right answer and then you're excused and then they make a decision and then you have to deal with the consequences and disagree and commit.
What if
What if I'm disagreeing because I'm fucking right and now I'm committing to clean up your mess because you're wrong?
And that's why many of us become founders because we just are sick of being in that position.
You're also closer to the metal.
And when you go become a CEO, when you become a founder,
Part of the paradox of it that I believe we have to be careful about is that we stay close to the metal.
And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details, you know.
all the stories about steve jobs i was so impressed when i heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms you know when and i tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter and i had a great conversation with the founders of discord and they they came to this conclusion too that they needed to actually be an inverted pyramid and they said we realized
that we outsource we delegate the most important product decisions the ux to our least experienced people and they're doing this every day and we we decided to turn that upside down and say we as founders need to be kind of the first and last mile for the product and we have to be the ones who bless
Our best use of our time is making these minute decisions that change the product user experience.
And so to me, that's being close to the metal.
Brian Chesky believes in, you know, in doing things in non-scalable ways and doing it himself with a team by hand.
You know, the...
There's so many stories about Jeff Bezos and Zuck of the thing that mattered most, they would go and work two days a week deeply with the team on it.
And it makes sense.
If you were the best product maker in the company, we want you on the field.
We want to put you on the ice.
We don't want you to spend your time talking to investors and managing and scaling.
I believe that, and I did that building Zynga to a fault.
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