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  • ▶ 23:23 Mark Pincus From this concept and, and the failure of Tribe, I ended up getting to this, ah, framework at Zynga that I called Proven Better New. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:07 Mark Pincus Ok, so for Zynga Poker, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:51 Mark Pincus I remember at Zynga having a roadmap meeting with the poker team, and a newly minted product manager proudly showed me the new poker profile that he was going to launch.
  • ▶ 29:36 Shane Parrish So after Tribe and before Zynga, you went into this, this hole. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:03 Shane Parrish Why did you do that with Singa? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:46 Mark Pincus With this little poker game, and it was really fun, and it started to take off in ways right away, and it was one of these, like, lightning in a bottle things that it just worked, and everything about it worked. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:13 Mark Pincus I made this way harder for myself when it should have been easy at this point to raise money for Zynga. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:18 Shane Parrish So it started with Zynga Poker, and then... 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:46 Shane Parrish You had a near-death experience with Facebook and Zynga. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:59 Mark Pincus I'd say, when I, when I came back to Zynga as CEO for the second time, and I had to move fast 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:19 Mark Pincus In retrospect, you know, going through my own founder mode the whole way, and I thought I was clear from the beginning with Zynga, and then I gave it up.
  • ▶ 1:00:59 Mark Pincus And at Zynga, we had this, ah, value on the wall, be a CEO, own outcomes.
  • ▶ 1:05:52 Mark Pincus Inside Zynga, they called it Pincus's vampire blood. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:14 Mark Pincus It was like, I fought, I personally fought with Meta to hire him, he was like the star recruit from MIT, and I said, I'm gonna personally manage your career at Zynga, and he joined, I put him in Poker, and within a year, Poker was trying…
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