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Mark Pincus

What Mark Pincus thinks about ambition

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends, and before that of Freeloader, Support.com and Tribe.net.

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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Mark Pincus has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingAmbition should be measured in the eyes of your customer rather than your peers, which means being willing to take the best ideas wherever you find them.

    Their wordsif you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.

    ↗The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)youtube.com 5th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe greatest thing a product maker can build is an internet treasure — a service people cannot remember life before or imagine life without.

    Their wordsit's to build an internet treasure which is a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without. And I believe as product makers that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the world.

    ↗The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)youtube.com 22nd of 22 in this recording

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  5. Our readingA founder who does not know their own goal dies by a thousand compromises and ends up running a company they do not want to work at.

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    Their wordsknow your goal or suffer a death by a thousand compromises. Because what I had done my whole career and most of us do is compromise to get that next engineer, CTO, investor. You put a jerk on your board because you impressed with their firm name and the valuation and all your friends are going to be impressed and it's going to be so much easier. We make all these compromises and contort ourselves and eventually we wake up and it's company we don't want to work at.

    ↗FarmVille Creator: The Hidden Path to Successful Productsyoutube.com 9th of 16 in this recording