Mark Pincus
Founder,
Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Product Officer

Mark is the founder, CEO and chief product officer of Zynga. He founded the company in 2007 with a mission of connecting the world through games, and in founding zynga.org, he also believes that games can do good.

On his way to creating Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003, he launched Tribe.net, one of the first social networks. Before that, he founded Support.com, a pioneer in automating tech support, and took it public. In 1995, he launched FreeLoader, the first web-based consumer push company. Mark started his career in new media and venture capital before he discovered his calling as a consumer technology entrepreneur. Mark also made founding investments in Napster, Brightmail, Twitter and Facebook.

Mark graduated summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

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June 27, 2005

Love Gnomedex

i got to spend a day at gnomedex last week in seattle (thanks to chris pirillo). the hightlights for me were microsoft making an important announcement (supporting rss in longhorn) to a blogger only audience - cool to think that this would be first reported by bloggers with all media accounts based on blog posts when it's usually the opposite - and lee's bbq before, oh and driving a speedboat around lake washington and checking out the fat pads on the water. Z_at_lees_party_seattle

also loved this new piece of edimology that chris coined from the conference...Canterize /v/ - 1. To interrupt, enthusiastically; 2. The opposite of decanterize, wherein all social relevance is stripped from a Web site.

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Hey Mark,
It was cool to have you, Mo and Zinga (sp?) at the house for the BBQ. Let us know if/when you come back to Seattle...

~Lee

Posted by: Lee LeFever | June 27, 2005 at 02:47 PM

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