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Mark Pincus

Co-founder

Zynga

Mark Pincus is best known as the founder of Zynga, the pioneer of social mobile games, which he took public in just four years after growing it to $1 billion in annual revenues. Prior to Zynga, he was on the ground floor for Web 1.0 and 2.0 — founding FreeLoader, which was acquired after seven months; Support.com, which he took public; and Tribe.net, a social network that preceded Facebook.

He was an original investor in Facebook, Twitter, and Napster, and co-founded the investment firm Reinvent Capital, which has backed SpaceX and Joby. He also co-created the Product Management course at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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