How to kill your bad ideas, w/Zynga's Mark Pincus
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
To succeed, you have to be relentless about pursuing a big opportunity — and ruthless about killing your own bad ideas along the way. Zynga founder Mark Pincus upended the gaming industry with social games like Farmville and Words With Friends. And he did it by gathering data; killing ideas that didn't move the needle, and going all-in on the ones that did. With cameos by Andrea Jones-Rooy, data scientist and comedian, and Matt Ruby, founder of Vooza.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:35.0 | Good day was for sale. |
| 0:37.0 | What are you watching? |
| 0:38.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:40.0 | Good day to you. |
| 0:41.0 | How do you do? |
| 0:42.0 | Good morning. Top of the morning to you. Top of the morning to you. |
| 0:44.0 | You might be wondering where I am, listeners. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, I'm in New York City, a place you probably heard of. |
| 0:51.0 | Maybe the more important question is when I am. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm in 1890, December 1890 to be specific. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm right here on the corner of 57th Street and 6th Avenue. |
| 1:04.0 | Festive candles flicker in store windows, and gas lamps light the streets. |
| 1:09.5 | It's Christmas time, and chestnuts are roasting on street carts. I can smell them along with a horse manure and the factory smoke. |
| 1:18.0 | You might wonder what I'm doing here. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, there's a story unfolding here that I wanted to tell you about. |
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