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How to kill your bad ideas, w/Zynga's Mark Pincus

2018/7/25
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To succeed, you have to be relentless about pursuing a big opportunity — and ruthless about killing your own bad ideas along the way. Zynga founder Mark Pincus upended the gaming industry with social games like Farmville and Words With Friends. And he did it by gathering data; killing ideas that didn't move the needle, and going all-in on the ones that did. With cameos by Andrea Jones-Rooy), data scientist and comedian, and Matt Ruby), founder of Vooza.

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