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Brian Kilmeade Show

Mark Pincus: Life at the Speed of Play

Brian Kilmeade Show

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Entertainment News, News, Sports, Business

4.12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everybody. We're with Mark Pinkett, billionaire founder of Zinga, former Democrat,

0:04.9

and now Trump supporter, author of a brand new book, Life of the Speed of Play,

0:08.7

launch products that people love. Mark, welcome. Thanks. So what is, how did you make your money?

0:15.9

The old-fashioned way, I guess. I built it one company at a time, one product at a time. And I

0:22.4

founded my first company when I was 28 at the beginning of the internet era. And amazingly,

0:29.0

it was acquired after seven months. It was the first consumer internet acquisition.

0:33.9

And what was that? It was called Freeloader, and it was a free downloadable product that attached

0:42.7

to your browser, let you subscribe to internet content, it dialed in in the middle of the night,

0:48.8

because remember it used to be really slow, downloaded all the internet, put it in an interactive

0:53.6

screen saver with ads on your

0:55.9

computer, and 2 million people downloaded it in the first month. It was known as push technology.

1:01.3

In fact, Fox, you know, in the middle of all that got involved with pointcast. I don't

1:08.6

know if you remember that era, but so anyway, so the company was acquired for $38 million after seven months.

1:15.7

So that, you know, at a young age, gave me the ability to pursue a career as a founder.

1:23.4

And then I went on, I created another company support.com, which was an enterprise software

1:29.6

company.

1:30.4

It was the first subscription software company before SaaS, and that went public in 2000.

1:36.7

And then eventually I started Zinga, you know, public, we created social gaming and kind of mass market casual gaming and was public

1:49.2

for 11 years and then merged with Take 2 a couple years ago. So from that takeaway, you're now

1:55.5

afraid of what's next. A lot of people were concerned about the internet. Look out. I'm worried

2:00.2

about what's going to happen. And now we're in a similar spot when it comes to AI. Why were you not

2:05.4

intimidated by this new era where we watch the new era of AI, 22 year olds at commencement

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