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Mark Pincus

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Founder, Work Play Ventures

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Work Play Ventures
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Record updated 21 September 2026

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Mark Pincus is the founder of Workplay Ventures. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. He founded several internet companies including Zynga, which pioneered social games to help establish gaming as a mass-market activity. He was the Chairman of Zynga’s Board and also served as Zynga’s Executive Chairman and twice as its Chief Executive Officer, including when he returned in 2015 to lead its turnaround and reinvention as a mobile-first games company. Zynga merger with Take-Two Interactive in 2022. Before Zynga, Mark founded tribe.net, one of the earliest online social networks whose technology was acquired by Cisco Systems.

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