Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I still believe that we can offer you a much deeper, more engaging, more compelling play experience on a PC than we can on a mobile device, but one can enhance the other, and one can expand the other. I don't think they necessarily will compete with each other, just like how we find a place for movies in our lives, and TV and radio.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

About every other week, I sit down with all of our new Zynga hires and I talk to them for about 90 minutes, have an open Q&A. There is no formal presentation. I talk about our values, where they came from and why they are so important, and I ask them to challenge those values.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't stop there. It comes from saying you're dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I believe in the opportunities for social gaming. It's overlapping with mobile gaming and lots of video gaming, but it's still different. It's all getting more blurry as hardcore games and console games talk about being social.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

We need a modern people's lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for a president we're truly excited about. Imagine a government that promotes capitalism and civil rights.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.