What Mark Pincus thinks about democracy

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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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2 Jun 2026

Our readingA company is not a democracy: every voice should be heard and then one person decides, and the decision should not be the popular one.

Their wordsIt's false to believe that a company is a democracy. The way I run the company was what I called a democratic dictatorship. And I said, I want everyone everyone's voice to be heard and then I'll be the single vote. And I think that's the way a company should be run. I think there's one CEO, there's one chef. I think a good CEO is going to seek out the intellectual honesty, the truths from everywhere and hear from everybody and then they're going to make the decision and they're not going to make the decision because it's most popular in the company.

↗FarmVille Creator: The Hidden Path to Successful Productsyoutube.com 11th of 16 in this recording