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▶ 83:28 · $MIDJOURNEY · Mark Pincus says consumer AI still looks uninvestable, with Midjourney one of the few exceptions
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Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO

2026-06-23 · 3 company · 0 thematic
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mark pincus

Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the studio behind FarmVille that defined the social-gaming era. A prolific consumer-internet angel, early in Facebook, Twitter and Snap.

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“I think consumer AI still feels uninvestable. There's no obvious distribution. There's been like two companies that make sense, like Sumo and Midjourney.”
—mark pincus

episode shorts · 11

Mark Pincus on how to spot a fake CEO

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Mark Pincus on using yourself as a focus group of one

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Mark Pincus says consumer AI still looks uninvestable, with Midjourney one of the few exceptions
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