What Mark Pincus thinks about investing

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

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2 Jun 2026

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.

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