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Pincus: Team warned him against writing about Elon Musk
“I have a book coauthor and a publisher and a chief of staff, and they all kept coming back to Mark. Don't go there. Elon's controversial, and you shouldn't just call him Elon.”
Pincus originally funded Napster because Sean Parker interned for him
“I put up all the original money for Napster because Sean Parker worked for me as an intern when he was 16.”
Pincus: Advised Brian Chesky against celebrity chef Airbnb Experiences
“At one point, Airbnb, when they were launching experiences had, their original idea was that you'd have, like, Michael Minna come cook in your home, and all these amazing experiences, and I said to Brian Chesky, you know, I don't want Michael Minna, with all d…”
Pincus: Co-founded enterprise AI startup Hivemind with Reid Hoffman and Ratankar Das
“I just recently co-founded an enterprise AI company called Hivemind. Again, I was trying to pursue What I call the social membrane and just thinking, like, how will we do social networking in an AI agentic world? And I teamed up with Reid Hoffman and with a re…”