Tomas Mazzitello

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