Mark Pincus
American entrepreneur and founder of Zynga
American entrepreneur and founder of Zynga
Every podcast episode featuring Mark Pincus that Attunex has found: 47 interviews and appearances across 40 shows between 2007 and 2026. Most often on Village Global Podcast (3), Masters of Scale (3) and The Next Big Idea (2). Follow Mark in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga and a Village Global Luminary LP. He took Zynga public after starting it as a social poker game for Facebook, and it was his fourth company, after earlier ventures…
PocketGamer.biz head of content Craig Chapple and deputy editor Paige Cook talk through the latest games industry news on the 105th episode of the Week in Mobile Games Podcast. On the show this week:…
Back in 2007, Mark Pincus had a gut feeling that adults would play games on their phones if they were just woven into their daily lives. On that instinct, he founded Zynga and built the biggest games…
Strip out inflation and the games market has barely grown in a decade. This week we dig into Newzoo's latest numbers and what they say about where growth comes from: mature Western markets, existing…
The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s…
Mark Pincus founded Zynga that was later acquired of $12.7B by TakeTwo and still thinks he misplayed the hand. On this episode he unpacks the playbook behind Life at the Speed of Play: why all new…
What does it take to be a founder? Mark Pincus doesn't believe in the lightning bolt: the one brilliant idea that changes everything. He built Zynga, the social gaming giant behind FarmVille and…
Why do so many promising products fail? Zynga founder Mark Pincus reveals the critical difference between a permanent human instinct and a disposable product idea. This episode explores the Minimum…
We’re on Chapter 6 of our Life at the Speed of Play read-along, and this one’s about Bold Beats, Mark Pincus’s term for the fast, high-impact moves that sit between two traps most product teams fall…
The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk www.LearningLeader.com The Price of Becoming is a USA Today, LA Times, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! www.LearningLeader.com/Becoming My guest - Mark Pincus…
What Mark Pincus taught me about turning a roadmap from a checkbox into the heartbeat of a team, right as I’m avoiding building one myself. This week in our Life at the Speed of Play read-along, we…
Daniel opens by sharing that Zynga was one of the most influential stocks he ever purchased, then takes Mark back to childhood to understand what shaped him. Mark shares two early influences: his…
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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing behind OpenAI's proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, and…
Zynga founder Mark Pincus breaks down to Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi the explosive creation of Farmville, the hard truths of scaling a massive gaming empire, and what it was really…
OpenAI autonomously breaches Hugging Face, the US targets Chinese AI models, GPT-5 generates bioweapon guides, Reid Hoffman launches Prentis, and a grid failure exposes data center vulnerabilities.…
[Barely Possible 2026-07-26] Today's episode: • A single DC power line failure made 3GW of Northern Virginia data centers flip to backup at once, spiking PJM voltage to Chicago. • ON.Energy is…
Continuing our summer read-along of Life at the Speed of Play by Zynga founder Mark Pincus, this week I’m digging into Chapter Two: Instincts vs. Ideas. Pincus’s claim that stopped me cold: our…
Bugün Anthropic'in beklenen modeli Opus 5'i resmi olarak duyurmasını, Reid Hoffman ve Mark Pincus'un bilgisayar kontrol ajanları üzerine kurduğu Prentis'in 100 milyon dolar yatırım görüşmelerini ve…
Anthropicの新型モデル「Opus 5」公開と効率重視という評価、CognitionによるAIアシスタント「Poke」買収、Midjourneyの占星術アプリ「Co-Star」買収、Reid Hoffman・Mark…
Most people think success comes from having an original idea. Mark Pincus thinks that's one of the most expensive mistakes you can make. After building one of the most successful gaming companies in…
Life at the Speed of Play, Chapter One: The Book of Life How creating a Book of Life makes your life worth living, and scaffolds you as a strategic leader Continuing our summer read-along of Life at…
Podcasting is lousy with guests who peddle advice about starting businesses, building careers, and living full lives. Few of these gurus have actually accomplished anything. Fewer still have advice…
Let’s get started with our new book series. I’m kicking off the Life at the Speed of Play read-along, starting with Reid Hoffman’s foreword and Mark Pincus’s introduction. This is a short intro…
140+ Business Ideas (Database): https://clickhubspot.com/efdj Episode 840: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Mark Pincus ( https://x.com/markpinc…
What if the fastest way to build a startup is to legally remix proven billion-dollar business models with AI? In this condensed summary of My First Million, hosts Saam Paar and Shaan Puri talk with…
Mark Pincus is a serial tech entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Zynga. He joins host Reid Hoffman to reveal the insights at the center of his new book: Life at the Speed of…
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How do you build a billion-dollar startup? Ask Mark Pincus. The founder of Zynga and creator of FarmVille, Mark turned a $350,000 personal investment into one of the most successful gaming companies…
Podcast : Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga) Pub date : 2026-06-14…
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The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Qualcomm shares jumped after the chipmaker forecast annual sales of…
Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga, talks how AI is impacting businesses, ideas and growth. He speaks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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After New York’s primaries, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) discusses the future of the Democratic Party in a midterm election year. Plus, Zynga founder and Reinvent Capital partner Mark…
A Note from James: Mark Pincus is one of the true OGs of the internet. You probably know him as the founder of Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker, and Words With Friends. Zynga was…
Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga, which went from a poker app on Facebook to a $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. His new book, Life at the Speed of Play, introduces the Proven…
Brian Kilmeade tackles a massive day in politics as progressive socialists clean up in New York City primaries—is this a isolated local trend, or a wave heading for Middle America? Plus, a deep dive…
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Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga and author of the newly released Life at the Speed of Play (HarperCollins, foreword by Reid Hoffman), joins Sourcery to break down the framework he’s used over the past…
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Most leaders know they need to innovate, but many take a strong instinct and hold too tightly to an idea, rather than testing, experimenting, and playing to find the best solution. Mark Pincus,…
What separates a real CEO from a fake one? In this condensed recap of Sourcery, host Molly O'Shea talks with Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga and author of Life at the Speed of Play, about product…
Mark Pincus is one of the most distinctive founders and product builders of the past three decades. He has written a remarkable new book called Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love!…
📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了：硅谷顶尖创投播客《Lenny's Podcast》 Why most PMs have the right instincts but the wrong ideas | Mark Pincus (Zynga Founder) 本期嘉宾 Mark Pincus 是 Zynga 创始人，也是 FarmVille、Words With Friends、Zynga…
Mark Pincus founded Zynga—the company behind Words With Friends, FarmVille, and Zynga Poker—and has arguably created more hit consumer products than anyone in history. At Zynga, eight of 10 major…
What if the fastest path to a breakout product is to start with what already works, then earn your way to innovation? In this condensed version of Lenny Rachitsky’s conversation with Mark Pincus,…
The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s…
Mark Pincus is the creator behind Farmville and Words with Friends. He built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of social products on the…
Winning products often come from spotting real human demand before everyone else sees it. In this condensed version of The Knowledge Project, Shane Parrish talks with Zynga and Farmville creator Mark…
Zynga emerged in 2007 as a pioneer of social gaming, revolutionizing how people interacted online through simple yet addictive games like 'FarmVille' and 'Zynga Poker.' Founded by serial entrepreneur…
On this episode of Coder Caffeine, Maker Mantras Edition, we are guided by a powerful quote from Mark Pincus, the Co-Founder of Zinga, and practice a powerful mantra that reminds us that done is…
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:50 Gokul Rajaram on Google and what makes a great CEO 14:30 Ishan Mukherjee on the State of LLMs 22:23 Mark Pincus on how to come up with good ideas and build great products…
Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga , which developed some of the most popular mobile games of all time like Farmville and Words With Friends. He currently runs Reinvent Capital and teaches product…
(0:00) The Besties welcome Mark Pincus! (3:53) Mark's background (6:02) How Mark got red-pilled for Trump, maintaining friendships despite political differences (23:21) LA Wildfires update: Newsom's…
Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:30 The big political divide in the US 7:50 The new media election 19:55 Pre-Zynga: Mark's entrepreneurial origins 26:10 Being in the room where it happens 30:50 How to choose…
A slew of last minute high profile endorsement back Trump for president but will have little impact in election. The FBI, the Democrats and left ready to sow chaos if Trump wins.
On this episode of Coder Caffeine we decode an inspirational quote from Mark Pincus, and provide a quick mental framework to go from focusing on features, to focusing on users to drive product…
Guest: Mark Pincus, founder & chairman of Zynga, and managing member & co-founder of Reinvent Capital Before Zynga and Facebook made social gaming mainstream, the video game industry was “extreme on…
Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early stage games accelerator),…
You might recognize the name Mark Pincus but we almost guarantee you recognize the game Farmville. Mark Pincus is the founder and longtime CEO of Zynga, known for its massive global franchise of…
This encore episode is a recording of a special event where Mark Pincus (@markpinc) was interviewed by Ben Casnocha in San Francisco in front of a live audience of portfolio founders, friends of the…
E63: A press and email trick you can use for getting in touch with influential investors. Here's how I started email threads with Jason Calacanis, Fred Wilson, Naval Ravikant, Mark Pincus, and Tekin…
Vaibhav Sahgal is VP of Consumer Product @ Reddit where he has been for close to 5 years. Prior to his leading consumer product, Vaibhav spent 3 years as Head of Growth at Reddit. Before Reddit,…
Mark Pincus is a serial entrepreneur and investor who founded the early social media company Tribe Networks, and the mobile social gaming company Zynga. More recently he co-founded investment firm…
Aurora CEO Chris Urmson and Reinvent's (RTPY) Michael Thompson join David Drapkin to talk self-driving technology, why Aurora is setup for success, and the overall SPAC market. Aurora / Reinvent just…
Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Adam Cohen-Aslatai of S’More (www.smoredate.com), a dating…
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are no longer content with investing in startups and then eventually handing them off. Instead, many are now forming SPACs, or blank check acquisition companies, to…
Mark Pincus (@markpinc) joined us last summer in San Francisco for a town hall with Ben Casnocha, co-founder and partner at Village Global. Mark is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Zynga, and is…
Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. How to change your wi-fi password at home. And we meet the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Learn more…
Before Mark Pincus made it big with Zynga, he made it even bigger by investing in a couple of little companies called Napster and Facebook. He talks about those early days, and what Mark Zuckerberg…
To succeed, you have to be relentless about pursuing a big opportunity — and ruthless about killing your own bad ideas along the way. Zynga founder Mark Pincus upended the gaming industry with social…
Kalle Freese talks with Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga at Slush 2017 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Bing Gordon is a Partner and Chief Product Officer @ Kleiner Perkins , one of the world's most prestigious venture funds with prior investments in the likes of Google, Amazon, Twitter, Square and…
Mark Pincus is a serial entrepreneur and investor, best known for founding Zynga, the first company to introduce the mass market to social gaming. To date, more than one billion people around the…
The Masters of Scale team brings you a special blend of leadership tips from Season One guests — including clips we haven’t aired yet. In this bonus episode, we’ll share our favorite insights from Y…
Looks like the two major Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are taking the future off of the Democrats hands. Both Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman put in near $500,000 dollars between the both of them for…
Programa emitido el 27 de Abril en Uribe FM y Radio Battletoads. En esta entrega de First Person Gamers te hablamos de GRID: Autosport, de The Great Ace Attorney, de los ingresos de juegos de PC…
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Justin and Jason discuss the progress being made on AnyFu and related business decisions, concepts from the book Running Lean, Paul Paetz of Innovative Disruption, why no one is going to steal an…
Serial entrepreneur and Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon, longtime Electronic Arts creative mind and investor on behalf of KPCB, provide a very laid-back and desultory conversation. Topics…
Serial entrepreneur and Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon, longtime Electronic Arts creative mind and investor on behalf of KPCB, provide a very laid-back and desultory conversation. Topics…
In today's episode we meet up with Mark Pincus, the founder and CEO of the social networking website Tribe.net. Here, Pincus discusses the growth and development of Tribe, goes off about his favorite…