Our speaker this month is Mark Pincus, co-founder and CEO of Zynga. Social gaming site Zynga is one of the largest application developers on Facebook, with more than 40 million monthly active users and top games such as Texas Hold’em and Mafia Wars.
Previously, Mark was also the founder and CEO of Tribe Networks, and a serial entrepreneur with a track record of growing venture-funded technology companies. Prior to founding Tribe Networks, Pincus founded and served as CEO of SupportSoft, a provider of service and support automation software. Prior to SupportSoft, Pincus co-founded Freeloader, the first consumer push information service, which was acquired in 1996 by Individual, Inc. for $38 million.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Pincus worked in venture capital where he led investments in new media and software startups at Columbia Capital Corp. and at Tele-Communications, Inc. Before getting involved in new media, Pincus was a business consultant for Bain & Co. and an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co. Pincus graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School and he is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.
