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Mark Pincus is an american entrepreneur. He’s famous for having co-founded Zynga, a company that makes online social games. Before Zynga, Mark founded Freeloader Inc., Tribe Networks, one of the first social networks in 2003, and Support.com. He co-founded Zynga in July 2007 and drove the company till July 2013, as CEO.
Pincus holds a BSc in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His background, before starting his own “ventures”, includes a period in the venture capital and financial services worlds. Mark started his first company in 1995, Freeloader Inc., which was a web-based push technology service. He sold the company after seven months for $38 million.
Two years later he founded Support.com (in 1997), a provider of service and support automation software. He was able to bring the company public in 2000, which then changed name from Support.com to SupportSoft. At the age of 37, Pincus started his third company, Tribe.net, in 2003, which was an early social network. He later sold the company in 2007 to Cisco Systems.
In the same year, Pincus founded his fourth company, Zynga. Even in this experience, he was able to bring the company public in December 2011, four years after having started it. As of June 2013, the company counts more than 2,380 employees. He was also an angel investor in Napster, Facebook, Friendster and Twitter.
Mark Pincus resembles the figure of “The Entrepreneur”. He has gone through four different companies, with a background in the venture capital world and angel investments through the course of his career. The experience that Mark brings to the table, with also two Initial Public Offerings, is immense at that’s why he has already secured a seat in the heaven of “Tech Entrepreneurs”.
