The hidden pattern behind successful products

“Today my guest is Mark Pinkinis, founder of Zingga”

“Today my guest is Mark Pinkinis, founder of Zingga”

“Sam Alman, the co-founder of OpenAI, said that today the only bottleneck to building great products is knowing what to create.”

“Sid Meyers like the you know godfather of game design who's the most revered game designer.”

“Steve Jobs was obsessed with it. They had a whiteboard and they had a table with it”

“in the Peter Teal sense it's almost a moral arbitrage”

“I love referencing someone like Craig Newark on Craigslist, who took two years to add photos to Craigslist listings.”

“I think about Nikita, who I think you've had on, and I I love his story on TBH.”

“I know Elon has is the exception to the rule.”

“In a lot of ways Slack also, you know, was humbled. Stuart keeps trying to start game companies”

“if you talk to Brian Chesy about his launches, he already knows that he has a hit.”

“Osho said if you're torn between two paths, they're both wrong.”

“I give Reed Hoffman credit for this definition, as blurring the lines between the virtual and the real.”

“Brian Armstrong was saying everyone should be an individual contributor.”

“all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed”

“there's so many stories about Jeff Bezos and Zuck of the thing that mattered most.”

“there's so many stories about Jeff Bezos and Zuck of the thing that mattered most.”

“Andy Jasse at Amazon everyone on the sea staff used to be someone who had been the tech assistant to Bezos”

“Well, that's another one that I stole from Bezos.”

“my friend Bing Gordon says, you know, one day those treasures will be in the Smithsonian.”

“Today my guest is Mark Pinkinis, founder of Zingga”

“Sam Alman, the co-founder of OpenAI”

“It's called Life at the Speed of Play. It's coming out in a few weeks, and it is so good”

“this framework that you developed uh called proven better new”

“this is a framework that we got to early on at Zingga and it became like a religion”

“this is a framework that we got to early on at Zingga and it became like a religion”

“He came out, I think, a a social civilization on Facebook”

“social civilization on Facebook”

“Go to work os.com to make your app enterprise ready today.”

“If you want to build the AI Snapchat or the AI camera”

“whether it's Apple or Snapchat or Instagram, and copy those legally and with hopefully some taste.”

“And in our game, Words with Friends, you know, it was Scrabble”

“it was Scrabble, but if it was just Scrabble, why was it a massive hit”

“your Tribes idea that's Reddit that becomes a whole company industry”

“There was a point in Tribe where I knew my metrics weren't working.”

“I was there at the TED conference when this team from MIT was demoing their touchscreen”

“you have a bunch of examples in the book Slack and threads”

“you have a bunch of examples in the book Slack and threads”

“if you think about the iPhone and the iPod”

“basically the iPod there was a music player they made it better and they added some new stuff”

“I think Slack might have just been proven and better and no new”

“You're trying to win the hearts and minds of nurses in Indiana like for Farmville.”

“Craig Newark on Craigslist, who took two years to add photos to Craigslist listings.”

“What I found was in the Netscape browser and in the Internet Explorer browser, they had buried in there a feature of offline browsing.”

“I think about Nikita, who I think you've had on, and I I love his story on TBH.”

“That was my first company, Freeloader.”

“in the Internet Explorer browser, they had buried in there a feature of offline browsing.”

“their 45th shot on goal was Angry Birds and it was a hit and it was innovative”

“that is kind of roio getting to Angry Birds. They made 45 games.”

“what OMG Pop did which is very similar story but opposite path”

“OMG Pop created uh the hit game draw something and Zingga bought them.”

“my first two companies freeloader and support.com.”

“And what did I do? I made a Facebook app. Like a poker game.”

“I love the story of Bolt.new that really blew up last year.”

“we were launching our first expansion pack for Farmville”

“it was I think it was Farmville um English countryside or something.”

“It's what midjourney does for me today.”

“viral-based companies, and there's been many, you know, be real, there's, right, we've seen these, they're sinking speedboats.”

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“I got my nephews who are intense gamers to play Rise of Nations with me”

“We are on Snapchat and Instagram and and Tik Tok”

“People are proud to tell you they're not on Instagram, right? They're not missing the party.”

“LinkedIn gave us massive productivity.”

“that cocktail party that for me it started with Napster when all of a sudden all of us were connected”

“But then Fster, Facebook, LinkedIn, what we were getting was better lead generation.”

“Today, we're all hanging out on our Claude, on our GPT, but there's no cocktail party.”

“did we have to ask if GPT was it? Did we say, "Oh, is GPT it? I'm not sure."”

“the more it's uniquely instantiated to OpenAI, the more it drives their consumer value proposition.”

“Microsoft was a brutal monopoly. They were a brutal platform.”

“I had a great conversation with the founders of Discord”

“Andy Jasse at Amazon everyone on the sea staff used to be someone who had been the tech assistant to Bezos”

“she created she's created a brand of sweatshirts called Comfy Fancy.”

“she also has created a a gathering a grouping a group for um neurode diversion middle school kids called neurosparkley”

“they had internships at Niantic working on Pokemon Go. They built a first-time user experience.”

“they had internships at Niantic working on Pokemon Go.”

“one day those treasures will be in the Smithsonian.”

“Life of the Speed of Play is my it's I'm trying to share my my playbook and philosophies”

“You can find all past episodes or learn more about the show at lennispodcast.com.”