#311: Mark Pincus, Founder & Former CEO, Zynga – Trust your instincts, but vet your ideas

Podcast: How Leaders Lead with David Novak · David Novak

Opublikowano: 2026-10-01

Back in 2007, Mark Pincus had a gut feeling that adults would play games on their phones if they were just woven into their daily lives. On that instinct, he founded Zynga and built the biggest games of the early social internet — including FarmVille, Words With Friends, and Zynga Poker. Four years later, they had over a billion users. Safe to say, Mark’s instincts were right. But according to Mark, that’s where a lot of leaders lose the plot. They have the right instincts but then put the wrong ideas around those instincts. They try to...