Silicon Valley OG shares crazy stories from Zynga early days + 3 business ideas

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Episode 678: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Siqi Chen ( https://x.com/blader ), the founder of Runway.com. — Show Notes: (0:00) Early days at Zynga (14:34) Business ideas (52:18) Touchy-feely class (1:07:24) Siqi’s favorite interview question (1:12:48) Insane growth of ElevenLabs — Links: • Limitless - https://www.limitless.ai/ • Rewind - https://www.rewind.ai/ • Runway - https://runway.com/ • Hoffman Institute - https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/ • Pump - https://pump.fun/board • ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	and they said, well, you should not confuse revenue for success.
0:04.0	So I said, well, you guys shouldn't confuse a lack of revenue for success either.
0:06.9	And then they got, like, kind of upset.
0:10.0	Dude, this meeting, it goes in, like, the Silicon Valley Autistic Hall of Fame.
0:14.1	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:16.3	I know I could be what I want to.
0:19.0	I put my all in it like my days off.
0:21.6	On the road, let's travel.
0:23.0	What's up?
0:23.3	We got our friend Siki here, founder of Runway.
0:25.8	Back of the day, built a company, sold it to Zinga, built another company, sold it to Postmates.
0:30.7	Has gone viral many times.
0:33.2	And there's a lot of people in Silicon Valley who you almost, it's like a film director. It's like, oh, they're working on a new project.
0:38.6	You really want to know what they're doing.
0:40.3	That's you because you do things with taste.
0:42.7	So excited to have you here.
0:44.2	Do you have any good stories from early days of Zinga?
0:47.4	Because you sold a company to Zinga back when Zinga was the shit.
0:50.7	Did you work with Mark Pinkis?
0:52.1	What's he like? Give me a good Zinka story.
0:54.9	Okay. I have a great story. How I came to report to Mark Pink is actually, it's not a great story.
1:00.3	I have like so many good Mark and my first company. And I joined his director product
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hubspot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hubspot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.