Mark Jonathan Pincus (born February 13, 1966)[3] is an American Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com.[4] Pincus served as the CEO of Zynga until July 2013, then again from 2015 to 2016.[5]
Pincus was named 2009 "CEO of the Year"[6] at The Crunchies technology awards[7] and a year later was named Founder of the Year at the 2010 ceremony.[8] Zynga is considered to be the pioneer of the social gaming industry.[9] In 2011, Zynga went public with a $1 billion IPO.[10] Pincus co-founded Reinvent Capital in 2018, an investment firm, with Reid Hoffman and hedge fund manager Michael Thompson.[11][12] He co-created the Stanford Graduate School of Business course on Product Management with Professor Amir Goldberg.[13]
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in April 2015, replaced by predecessor MarkPincus. Frank Gibeau took over as CEO on March 7, 2016, with Pincus once again stepping aside. Gibeau's last...
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announced that Silicon Valley angel investors including Marissa Mayer and MarkPincus had invested $500,000 in the company. In December 2015, Andreessen Horowitz...
fun, free games. We believe OMGPop will help us fulfill our promise." MarkPincus, CEO of Zynga, announced in an official blog post on 3 June 2013 that...
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immediately resign as Zynga's CEO, and was replaced by founder MarkPincus. Regarding Mattrick, Pincus said, “He got us in the game in mobile in a big way, and...
newest obsession". Fortune. Retrieved October 9, 2014. "Marissa Mayer and MarkPincus invested in a startup that makes 'brain drugs' and chewable coffee",...
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weekend". ESPN.com. March 17, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2011. Zynga CEO MarkPincus on the future of the company, Guardian "It's official: Zynga chases online...
Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2017. "Warburg Pincus-Backed ESR Relaunches Hong Kong IPO". Mingtiandi. 21 October 2019. Retrieved...
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