Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Mark Pincus
by Scott Edward Walker on February 15th, 2012To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Mark Pincus, the founder and CEO of Zynga and a brilliant entrepreneur.
In this interesting video (courtesy of Bloomberg), Mark discusses, among other things:
- his background and first few ventures;
- how he came-up with the idea for Zynga;
- the importance of the Facebook platform;
- having skin in the game (i.e., funding your startup);
- how to differentiate;
- Zynga’s revenue model;
- trends vs. industries; and
- the significance of rapid experimentation.
I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks, Scott
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