Mark Pincus

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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

You have this burning passion.

mission and passion around your product, how do you spread that to other people and have them spread in the organization?

The first thing is put them in the room with you.

So the idea of this teaching hospital was, okay, I'm just going to put as many people as I can in the room while I'm doing these product management meetings and have my passion and ideas and approach spread to all of them too.

And that worked.

And then...

grab someone from the ranks and make them your tech assistant have them just follow you around for six months or 12 months and make make it the mini me the person who is you in your 20s who was the expert witness a little bit of a know-it-all um and and start having them follow you around to pick up learn absorb everything you do and give them projects to test them and and then

Hopefully, you've created a mini-me that you can now put in a much bigger role somewhere else.

And in fact, Andy Jassy at Amazon, everyone on the C staff used to be someone who had been the tech assistant to Bezos.

So that idea actually scales and you kind of get it for free.

Well, that's another one that I stole from Bezos.

But if I get to pick one thing that you do as CEO, I'm going to pick that you're right.

So even if you don't operate the ship or the factory that well,

I'd rather that you picked the right product, the right strategy than your phenomenal execution or inspiring people or managing.

Because being in the right body of water matters more than the right boat.

And a great boat in a

dead late bed, you know, isn't going anywhere.

And so I, I look for that in people like, are they right?

Like that's the best resume.

I could see that you were right about something.

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