Mark Pincus

Mark Jonathan Pincus (born February , ) is an American Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company. Pincus also founded the startups Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. Pincus served as the CEO of Zynga until July , then again from to .Pincus was named "CEO of the Year" at The Crunchies technology awards and a year later was named Founder of the Year at the ceremony. Zynga is considered to be the pioneer of the social gaming industry. In , Zynga went public with a $ billion IPO. Pincus co-founded Reinvent Capital in , an investment firm, with Reid Hoffman and hedge fund manager Michael Thompson. He co-created the Stanford Graduate School of Business course on Product Management with Professor Amir Goldberg.