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I'm excited to share that my book, Life at the Speed of Play, will be out in June. I've spent the last 5 years writing so I can share my lessons and stories around building products and scaling companies.
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mark pincus
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Founder @zynga. Partner/Reinvent Capital. Passionate product maker, biker, surfer. Father of three amazing girls and two amazing boys! Pre order my book!
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I am once again telling you, young conservatives, that if you turned against Israel in the last couple of years, you are the victim of an Islamo-Leftist psyop and the sociopathic grifting of influencers who don't care about you or anything but their grift. Useful idiots, all.
Fox News Politics@foxnewspolitics
FOX NEWS INVESTIGATION: 425 organizations with a combined $1 billion in annual revenues coordinate 736 anti-Israel 'Nakba 78' protests across 39 countries today — a transnational network that includes communist groups, Marxist-funded nonprofits and coalitions linked to Chinese Communist Party sympathizers. The campaign's own materials don't call for a ceasefire or two-state solution. They call for the dismantling of Israel itself, framing the U.S. as a 'fascist, imperialist, genocidal settler state' and erasing Israel's name entirely from their literature. The U.S. leads all nations with 187 events planned.
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B+ is the most dangerous grade in life.
Nobody kills a B+ anything.
It's too good to cut. Too mediocre to ever become great.
So it just sits there. Eating your time.
@markpinc told me this on the podcast and I haven't stopped thinking about it.
He built Zynga into a $12.7 billion exit by killing products that had millions of users. Not because they were failing. Because they were B+.
But this goes way beyond business.
The relationship that's "fine."
The city you've "gotten used to."
The job that's "going well."
The friendship you keep out of habit.
Bad situations are easy to leave. You walk away from those on Monday morning.
But "pretty good"?
You defend that. You give it one more year. Everyone around you says it looks great from the outside. And you believe them because it's not painful enough to question.
That's the trap. You're not stuck in something terrible. You're comfortable in something average.
And that's how people spend a decade building a life they'd never actually choose if they were starting from scratch.
Pincus didn't get to $12.7 billion by working harder on B+ ideas.
He got there by refusing to keep them alive.
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Loved giving this long form talk at Founder Inc last week. Being in the company of so many scrappy, hungry founder/builders was inspiring!
Founders Inc@fdotinc
This is how Mark Pincus built Zynga into a $12B company, & how he keeps building something better Full interview with @markpinc & @hthieblot : 00:00 Poker party legend 01:46 "The Abyss" when nothing's working 03:09 The lazy onramp to curiosity 04:01 How Zynga started 06:50 The bet that built Napster, LinkedIn, Facebook 09:18 How Mark almost built Uber 11:10 "If I could go back, I'd just copy Friendster" 11:36 You're in the right body of water, wrong boat 12:33 Don't let B+ be the enemy of A 14:53 Excitement is the real metric 16:11 What real product-market fit feels like 17:35 If you're not addicted, no one else will be 24:09 Too much success 33:46 Building FarmVille in 6 weeks 35:16 170,000 installs on day one 37:24 You're an "expert witness" 38:33 Build the house you want to live in 41:09 Talent is a myth 42:31 You should hire "broken resumes" 58:50 Can you talk to 10 real users every day? 01:00:06 Day-365 retention 01:02:13 Mark's framework: proven, better, new. 01:04:12 Everyone who treated Facebook as distribution failed 01:10:21 What I'd do if I was starting over today
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@E_Barcohana @spencerpratt @KarenBassLA Daniel lurie had no experience too. And theres no indication experience esp bad is helpful.
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People keep asking @spencerpratt if he has “experience” to run LA
The only thing @KarenBassLA did in Congress before becoming Mayor was name a post office
Raman has a degree from MIT in Urban Planning and her district is a murder scene
I’ll take my chances on Spencer, thanks.
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@devahaz @zachcoelius Actually sunil’s was a few years later and i invested. Sidecar
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@markpinc @zachcoelius Wait I had no idea you and Sunil both had transit startup ideas!
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Your instinct is right 95% of the time but your idea is right at best 25% of the time.
Most founders die on the hill of their first idea when the real win is the instinct underneath it.
In 2003, i had the instinct that we should be able to order a taxi through our phone. My idea was to text message the dispatcher. I bought smstaxi.com and wrote a business plan that only ever got to a million dollars a month in revenues so I never acted on it (i figured i’d make a dollar per ride).
The winning idea that @travisk and @gc brilliantly invented was to enable anyone to be a taxi, launching the gig economy. I never would have come up with that.
I write about this paradox and how to avoid it in my new book out June 23: lifeatthespeedofplay.com
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Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.
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We’re doing things differently in San Francisco when it comes to homelessness. And we’re seeing results.
- Nearly 1,000 fewer people are sleeping on our streets compared to 2024—a major sign that our strategy is working.
- Unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco is now at its lowest level in 15 years.
- The number of people in tents is down 85%.
These numbers come from the 2026 Point in Time Count. The takeaway is clear: More people are coming inside to get shelter and treatment, and we are moving in the right direction.
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My first startup was a bedsheet design that utilized magnets and zippers to change your sheets in under a minute. Spent all my savings on it. Got it patented etc. and then had to put it on the back burner bec we couldn’t figure out a way around the dryer causing the magnets to connect. Wasn’t willing to die on the hill but still hope to get back to it at some point.
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@markpinc the actual idea came december 2008, paris. garrett camp's $800 new year's eve car bill. five years after taxicar.com.
your instinct needed two other guys and half a decade to become an idea.
$UBER hit $76. the book is $32. someone priced the near-miss correctly
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@markpinc A lot of people are emotionally attached to the first version of their idea. The instinct was valuable, the packaging usually isn’t. That’s why some people stay “early” forever but never actually build the thing.
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Great to see people respond to real leadership!
Lis Smith@Lis_Smith
BREAKING: New poll shows @DanielLurie is the most popular American mayor. Key findings: - 74% of SF voters approve of him - Majorities support his handling of public safety, downtown revitalization, neighborhood cleanliness - He earns support from across the political spectrum
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Anyone read anything really great lately (any format)?
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@hubermanlab How about Hilton? He sounds like an actual human but i didnt see the debates. And preston pratt? Can we write in for gov?
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Finally caught up on the California governor debates. What a waste of time! Simple questions get 3 types of replies:
Aspirational nonsense, focus on the errors of others, or tap dance maybes. I really think there should just be yes, no, or pass buttons to answer these.
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Not enough people are talking about this.
When so-called journalism receives an award for spreading fake news about Israel, it tells you everything you need to know about where the mainstream media currently is.
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
You literally cannot make this up The photojournalist of this front page NYT piece Saher Alghorra just won a Pulitzer Prize NYT had to issue a retraction because the entire story was fake So you can win a pulitzer now after fabricating an entire hoax story 🤡 Unreal
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My heart is aching. Genuinely. Not just because I'm Jewish. Because I'm also American.
We have reached the point were the social contract between many elected officials and citizens is now selectively enforceable depending on whether you are Jewish or not.
This week a mob nearly stormed the Jewish daycare and synagogue at Park East in New York. Very simply: there is no excuse for EVER mobbing a daycare. There is no excuse EVER for mobbing a place of worship, regardless of it's affiliation. These are the two places where it has been universally acknowledged that individuals have a right to sanctuary and safety.
The mobs actions are disgusting and abhorrent to the American value system. But what has hit me hard is the response from the mayor of the city and many of his political peers, whose job it is to protect the citizens. He blamed an event at the synagogue.
This is not a "double standards" issue. It is a fundamental rejection of basic American values purely because of political antagonism borne from and contributing to a permission structure of explicit antisemitism. It is not okay. It is destructive to the social fabric.
The response to this mob is not a litmus test of your support for Israel. The response is a litmus test of upholding American values.
And the Mayor, and many of his peers absolutely failed that test. Because it was a Jewish daycare in a Jewish place of worship.
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“Change the Party?” The Democratic Party?!
Call me crazy, but I think pro-terrorist, anti-American, antisemitic, anti-AAPI, misogynist, xenophobic, politically repellent Hasan Piker fanboys should go form their OWN party — and get the f*** out of ours! (1/3)
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