Mark Pincus

16 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 18, 2025 by Mark Pincus · said 8 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jan 18, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mark Pincus publicly endorsed Donald Trump two days before the 2024 election
“Eventually I came out two days before the election publicly for Trump.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 9:58 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 18, 2025
Disclosure
Mark Pincus bought Six Degrees patents for $750K and still owns half
“Reid and I bought them because we were worried that if Yahoo at the time had gotten them, or even Friendster, that they would have blocked the whole industry, so we bought them. We paid 750 K, which was a lot then, and we were accused of being patent trolls, a…”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 5:34 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 18, 2025
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Mark Pincus co-funded Friendster and invested in early Facebook and Twitter rounds
“Yeah, Reed and I put up the first money for Friendster. And then we were lucky enough to invest along with Peter in the first round of Facebook. The first on Twitter, so.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 4:48 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 18, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Mark Pincus discloses purchasing Alibaba and other Chinese equities
“I've been loading up on Alibaba, a couple Chinese names.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 1:19:09 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 18, 2025
Disclosure
Mark Pincus considered funding a $1.5M documentary recreating military UAP encounters
“He was interested and my friend was interested in saying, okay, can you put up a couple people a million and a half dollars to recreate this and film this? And I thought about it. I even had him go meet with Reed and didn't move quickly. And then he went dark …”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 1:37:19 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 18, 2025
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Mark Pincus wrote the first $100,000 check for Napster
“I think the first social media investment I made was Napster. I sent the first check, the first 100,000 dollars.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 4:45 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Jan 18, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mark Pincus publicly endorsed Donald Trump two days before the 2024 election
“Eventually I came out two days before the election Publicly for Trump.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 3:05 From Skeptic to Supporter: How This Billionaire Got ‘Red-Pilled’ by Trump
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pincus: Political campaigns will require authentic, long-form candidate media presence
“We're, we have a new way of doing politics after this election, that there's only authentic, like, only long form, and you, you're gonna have, you're, even the Democrats aren't gonna be able to field a candidate that isn't the full color”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 25:55 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mark Pincus invested in Raya after cold emailing info@rayaapp.com
“I invested in the company. I cold mailed them, and I, info at Raya app, and said, I use your app every day. I want to invest.”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:12:33 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025
Disclosure
Mark Pincus reveals he held conversations to join DOGE in D.C.
“I had some conversations. I was definitely intrigued and interested, and I was ready to take, like, the shittiest, like, least prestigious, and kind of potentially some, like, pretty polarizing position for at least six months move my family to D.C.,”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 38:16 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Pincus: Rival Playdom once burned a mannequin of him on stage
“They hated me and my company so much that they burned a mark mannequin on stage”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 54:24 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025
Disclosure
Pincus: Developing AI app 'Based or Biased' using Mark Cuban data
“And I've been working with these AI hackers on an app, not promoting here, it's not even available, called Based or Biased, and They used him to tune the app, the model for high bias, low base, because he flips, he's, he deleted his pro-Trump, I mean, his anti…”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:24:12 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Pincus: Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had a deep falling out
“Between Peter and Reed they've been friends for life, and they had a falling, deep falling out over all this”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 53:34 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Mark Pincus rates dating apps 1/10 and Raya 3/10
“My take is dating apps are a one out of 10 experience, and Rai is a three out of 10, so I say it sucks three times less, and it's because there's a human curation level”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:13:22 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025
Disclosure
Mark Pincus says he helped interview candidates for Trump transition team
“I went to the transition office. Right. And helped Interview some people.”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 58:34 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 20, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Pincus: Outside contractors account for 70% of US federal labor spending
“70% of the labor spend is for outside contractors, so I'm curious how far they can push that, because they might not have to go through all the legal labor side to cut. I think it's 1.2 trillion total spent on labor, and so, 70% of that, eight hundred billion …”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 18:28 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
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