Mark Pincus
15 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2017 by Mark Pincus · said 48 times in 15 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Howard Lindzon (13), Harry Stebbings (10), Vaibhav Sahgal (9), Fabrice Grinda (4), Darian Shirazi (3), Brad Feld (3), Bing Gordon (3), Mo Koyfman (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 1 episode
2022 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- Mo Koyfman: The Secret to Winning in Venture; Why Small Funds Outperform Large Funds | 20VC #915 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- 20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
2017 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- 20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
- 20VC: Why Valley Investors Are Really Gamblers, Why The Business Model of Selling To The Biggest Sucker Is Wrong & Why The Best Potential Hires Don't Care Who Your VC is with David Barrett, Founder & CEO @ Expensify
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- 20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Mark Pincus, oldest first
Nov 20, 2017 negative
Mark Pincus spent four years stubbornly pursuing a failed iteration of Tribe
“The most failing idea was try. I stubbornly stuck with one iteration on a social network for four years, and I got it so wrong. It's so painful to me to think that I tried one iteration of this, and it was clearly wrong, and I just stuck with it, and I could h…”
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 neutral
Mark Pincus pitched Zynga by listing ten reasons not to invest
“I started off by saying to investors, let me tell you the top 10 reasons you're not going to want to back us. And if you still want to talk after that, we will, but then we won't waste time. And 95% of investors thanked me and said, I don't want to meet.”
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 neutral
Nov 20, 2017
Mark Pincus was an early investor in Napster
“In 2002 and 2003, a few of us started getting together and really thinking about the potential for a people web, a web that was about people connections and not page connections and something that in really building off of Napster, which I was a first investor…”
Nov 20, 2017
Startup success requires testing more ideas weekly than competitors
“In four years, I can't think of how many more I could have tried, and that lesson was burned into me, and I think so much of success today is starting with a winning instinct, but then testing more good ideas, In a week than the rest of the industry does.”
Nov 20, 2017 negative
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Nov 20, 2017 positive
Mark Pincus prefers hiring humble, hungry candidates with 'broken resumes'
“I like to hire people who have what I call broken resumes. So someone who has seen greatness, touched greatness, come close to greatness, but then fallen because things just didn't work out. I find that those people are more humble and curious and more hungry.”
Nov 20, 2017 positive
Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman bought the Six Degrees patent in 2003
“Recognizing the importance of social networking, in 2003, Mark teamed up with his friend, Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, to purchase the fundamental six degrees patent, which broadly covers social networks, in order to keep it out of the hands of paten…”
Nov 20, 2017 bullish
Cryptocurrencies can enable a post-capital and post-corporation world
“Now I got involved with cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin early, and then I thought I was Too early, and maybe it wasn't going to happen, and now I'm completely drinking the Kool-Aid, and I'm completely enthralled by just the potential of cryptocurrencies to get us…”
Nov 20, 2017 positive
Early Zynga succeeded by aligning investors around never selling
“One of the ingredients that I think was really key to making Zynga successful in the early days was alignment. And we had such powerful alignment between the investors, first the CEO and founder vision, and not just vision for the product or company, but the v…”