What Mark Pincus thinks about venture capital
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 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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Their wordsit almost gives a new founder an advantage over a multi-time successful founder because we have too much rope to hang ourselves. It's too easy to raise money and recruit teams against a big vision before we've gotten to product market fit.
↗The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)youtube.com 9th of 22 in this recording
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Their wordsyou've gone through so much to be here. You owe it to yourself to bet on your instinct. You owe it to yourself to lose because of yourself. It's your right to be wrong. You, as a founder, owe it to yourself to control your own destiny and take half the valuation if it's all of the control. And it means you have the right to do it your way.
↗FarmVille Creator: The Hidden Path to Successful Productsyoutube.com 10th of 16 in this recording