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Mark Pincus

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01 / evaluation

And my entire product was offline browsing. But they had it as this buried power user feature and I saw the genius in that for that moment because bandwidth was so slow that I was like, "Oh, we can make an entire product just around that one feature.

“And my entire product was offline browsing. But they had it as this buried power user feature and I saw the genius in that for that moment because bandwidth was so slow that I was like, "Oh, we can make an entire product just around that one feature.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / evaluation

Sid Meiers, the godfather of game design, who's the most revered game designer, he came out with, I think, a social Civilization on Facebook and we thought, "Oh, God, here comes the ultimate game designer." And 10 minutes after the game came out, the Zynga PMs emailed around their analysis and they said it's dead on arrival because his FTUE, his first time user experience was so many clicks and so bad that no one was ever going to see his great game design.

“Sid Meiers, the godfather of game design, who's the most revered game designer, he came out with, I think, a social Civilization on Facebook and we thought, "Oh, God, here comes the ultimate game designer." And 10 minutes after the game came out, the Zynga PMs emailed around their analysis and they said it's dead on arrival because his FTUE, his first time user experience was so many clicks and so bad that no one was ever going to see his great game design.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / evaluation

I think if I'm unpacking that when you say that the products turn people off, it's funny you say that because FarmVille and CityVille were our biggest hits in terms of installs, engagement, retention, revenues.

“I think if I'm unpacking that when you say that the products turn people off, it's funny you say that because FarmVille and CityVille were our biggest hits in terms of installs, engagement, retention, revenues.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / prediction

One example that is my number one is my Easter egg on this is I think there should be an agentic travel agent. So a perfect example to me of a place where I think there is latent demand and the only reason we don't have it is because it doesn't make economic sense to offer it to us because we won't pay enough for it is a travel agent.

“One example that is my number one is my Easter egg on this is I think there should be an agentic travel agent. So a perfect example to me of a place where I think there is latent demand and the only reason we don't have it is because it doesn't make economic sense to offer it to us because we won't pay enough for it is a travel agent.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / evaluation

You became a founder, an entrepreneur because you wanted to go be an innovator, but you're trying to win the hearts and minds of nurses in Indiana, like for Farmville.

“You became a founder, an entrepreneur because you wanted to go be an innovator, but you're trying to win the hearts and minds of nurses in Indiana, like for Farmville.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / commitment

And I would say there's so many paradoxes in this and one that I've had to learn over and over again is if we're too ambitious at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we want to build, then we will probably miss product market fit because we won't start at a small enough, humble enough place because it might ...

“And I would say there's so many paradoxes in this and one that I've had to learn over and over again is if we're too ambitious at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we want to build, then we will probably miss product market fit because we won't start at a small enough, humble enough place because it might ...”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / commitment

And I like to say we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.

“And I like to say we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / evaluation

Even if they change for the better, we're angry because we go through life faster because of pattern recognition and we don't want to think about these things.

“Even if they change for the better, we're angry because we go through life faster because of pattern recognition and we don't want to think about these things.”
Speaker
Mark Pincus
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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