The Aarthi and Sriram Show

Ep 92 - Mark Pincus on the state of media and politics, the Zynga story and being the most unmanageable founder in tech


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Chapters:
0:0 Intro
1:30 The big political divide in the US
7:50 The new media election
19:55 Pre-Zynga: Mark's entrepreneurial origins
26:10 Being in the room where it happens
30:50 How to choose the right idea to work on
34:35 Meeting Mark Zuckerberg and investing in Facebook
40:20 Founder Mode
43:15 Zynga board and saving the company
49:30 Zynga 2.0: The Comeback
55:00 Zynga company culture
1:01:20 Building product at Zynga
1:08:30 How Zynga was Facebook's winning strategy
1:14:10 Advice to Founders
1:25:15 Outro

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