Mark Pincus (Zynga) - A Serious Take on Internet Game Play

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2009

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Serial entrepreneur and Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon, longtime Electronic Arts creative mind and investor on behalf of KPCB, provide a very laid-back and desultory conversation. Topics touched upon include successful CEOs, building sustainable companies, mentorship, and the consumer pay-driven Web 3.0.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Today we have two special guests. We've got Mark Pinkett and we have two special guests.
0:21.1	We've got Mark Pinkus and we have Bing Gordon.
0:24.1	And Mark is a visionary who is the founder of Zinga.
0:28.1	His DNA is one strand entrepreneur and one strand competitive gamer.
0:33.1	He's also known for being the founder of Tribe.net, which is one of the first social networking sites in 2003.
0:40.1	He is a BS from Wharton and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
0:44.4	Bing over here was served as a chief creative officer in this corner.
0:48.5	Family of my credit guards from 1998 to 2008 after heading EA's marketing and product development.
0:56.0	He has his MBA from Stanford just down the street and a BA from Yale.
1:01.0	And he's currently for last year a partner at Kleiner Perkin-Cawke and Buy.
1:04.0	So today we're going to have a fireside chat with these two guys, all about entrepreneurship, innovation, online gaming, and a whole bunch of other things.
1:12.8	So, without further ado, our guess.
1:14.7	Thanks.
1:16.1	Cool.
1:20.1	So can you believe Tina just got off a flight from Hong Kong?
1:24.2	So those here in class, what must she be like when she's actually rested?
1:30.3	So the good news is if I were doing this by herself, it would be all PowerPoint.
1:35.3	If Mark were doing it by itself, it would be all stream of consciousness.
1:38.3	So my goal is to take some of the sentences out of stream of consciousness, make sure they don't turn to PowerPoint.
1:43.3	So Mark, what are we going to do today?
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