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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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  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

    Interesting

  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

    Interesting