What Mark Pincus thinks about humility

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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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14 Jun 2026

Our readingBeing too ambitious and visionary at the outset is how founders miss product-market fit, because it stops them starting somewhere small and humble enough.

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Their wordsif if we're if we're too ambitious and we're at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we want to build, then we will probably miss product market fit because we won't start at a small enough humble enough place

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