Technology : Great Inspiring story of Zynga CEO - How to Fail: Mark Pincus - Businessweek

Mrk Pincus, the co-founder and CEO of online game-maker Zynga, wasn't a success in his first venture. In fact, he hd a string of filures before finally hitting gold with his current company. And he says those incidents helped make him who he is now. He teaches you how to handle failure & use it to your advantage here.

I’m sometimes called a serial entrepreneur,
but that’s only because, before Zynga, I failed to create a sustainable company. After starting two companies in the ’90s, I had a social networking startup, Tribe.net, in 2003. One of the things I try to instill at Zynga is to fail fast,look at the data, and move on, and at Tribe I failed to do that. We came up with ideas purely based on intuition, and it could take us three to six months to build it and launch. Those bullets were expensive, and many of them were not on target. Tribe reached the point where the investors literally gave up, resigned from the
board, and walked away. It was just me, my
team, and a creditor. We ended up selling the
company to Cisco and paying back all that debt. READ MORE @
How to Fail: Mark Pincus - Businessweek

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