Words matter. These are the best Mark Pincus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It’s overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it’s still different. It’s all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.
There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they’re given tasks and told what to do. I think it’s actually a minority of people. The majority of people don’t want that, but I’d say that the companies I’ve built are full of people with something to prove.
The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we’re just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.
I think we live in a unique time – the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven’t been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.
I think you’re defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.
We need a modern people’s lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for a president we’re truly excited about. Imagine a government that promotes capitalism and civil rights.
Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.
When you go to our political system, I feel like it’s intentionally kept in the last century. In every other facet of life, we turn to social media for instant response time, complete transparency.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, ‘How can we fit games into someone’s life?’
Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.
You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not, you’re not.
The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they’re not seeking that experience from the outset.
My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda.
Even if I’d wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren’t going to hire me, because I was saying things like, ‘That’s a dumb question’ when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn’t have a lot of respect for authority.
The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.
I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn’t fun to me and is not my skill set.
I’m fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that’s more left, and on some issues it might be more right.
I’ve grown a lot, and I’m learning every week.
There are people who have formed guilds in ‘World of Warcraft’ who may have played together for years before actually meeting, but because of the adventures they had together, they formed really deep-rooted friendships.
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction.
From the beginning… I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.
The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it.
I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring.
I’ve been good at product entrepreneuring.
In a world of shared data services, where you have third-party networks selling ads on your behalf and displaying them in real time to your users, it’s very difficult for you to control everything.
My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
When I entered the workforce, I was frustrated. When you’re starting your career, somebody else is ‘The Man’ or ‘The Woman.’ They go into a room and make the decision, not you. You don’t feel empowered. I wanted to break through that.
As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you’re substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.
I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.
