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Pincus: The metaverse will be huge, but not inside VR goggles
“I think that the metaverse is starting to happen and I think it's going to happen and it's going to be As big as Zuck thought, and it's just not going to happen inside of an immersive game goggle that is painful and hot to wear on your head, even if the form f…”
Mark Pincus Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 27:37 Mark Pincus unpacks his "Proven, Better, New" framework (with Reid Hoffman) | Masters of Scale
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Pincus: Legacy studios spent $15M-$20M over two years before testing demand
“At the time, game companies would build an entire game and take even two years and 15, twenty million dollars before they even know if anyone wanted it, and we could come out with it on the web, maybe only spend four weeks.”
Mark Pincus Jul 24, 2018 ▶ 18:06 How to kill your bad ideas (with Zynga's Mark Pincus)
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Pincus: Zynga Tracked Every Click When Rivals Relied on Google Analytics
“We were pushing it more than anybody because we went to tracking every click and analyzing it at a time that they were using Google Analytics.”
Mark Pincus Jul 24, 2018 ▶ 27:13 How to kill your bad ideas (with Zynga's Mark Pincus)
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