Mark Pincus
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3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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I mean, we got to a point that I had all the way to 50 employees.
We had a stand-up call that would go on for two hours, and I had everyone's name on a spreadsheet, and I had what they were supposed to do yesterday and what they're going to do today.
And I go through name by name and say, okay, did you get that done?
Can everyone else verify they got that done?
Okay, what are you going to do today?
And I completely micromanaged, but we were –
much more effective.
And then I kept micromanaging things.
I'm like, if you can be in the room, be in the room, assuming that you are the best player.
So yeah, I think it's less contrarian saying it now than it was 20 years ago.
But when I was building Zynga, we had to apologize for things like micromanaging or expecting
you know, massive results from our teams.
And I think I'm happy to see that that's becoming kind of accepted as more, it's closer to best practices today, I think.
But my point about, like, that management is get people to do the right thing when you're not in the room.
The first principle is be in the room if you can be, as much as you can be.
And then only...
Delegate when you get to the point that you you can't possibly be in all these rooms at the same time and then All these management principles are just different strategies to try to get people to do the right thing when you're not there and I love these non scalable
Ideas that actually scale what you're trying to do as a product maker in the right way.
And one of the ones I love is this idea of tech assistance and this idea of a teaching hospital.
How do you pass the vampire blood of you to other people?
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