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

And, and I look for that in the team and it's less, do I like your style or approach or your, your,

you know, personality fit.

I'm like, I'll take, I'll take misfits who are right.

I'm like, I want, I want those really smart expert witnesses who are intellectually honest and, and, you know, the more people you have around you who are right, you know, that's, they're, they're putting balls in the net.

Thank you for asking about this.

I think my greatest role and job and service to the world is trying to grow good humans.

I really, really put a lot into it and take it seriously, and I get so much out of it.

I like to say I'm growing my best friends.

And so far it's true.

So there's a couple of principles that have come in philosophies that have been important to me as a parent that I've just seen.

I do them naturally and I see that they work over time.

The first one for me is I have five kids.

Every one of them is just such a different person.

version of a human.

And I have a special needs son who's fairly extreme special needs.

Our new one-year-old baby has a gene mutation, and she actually may also end up being very neurodivergent.

So you just have this wide range.

And my 15-year-old girls, they're twins, and they're completely divergent from each other.

This first principle that I've found is meeting them where they are.

And

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