Rank #2699
Mark Pincus
Net worth $1.5B
Online games · United States
- Born
- Feb 13, 1966
- Age
- 60
- Source
- Online games
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania
Net worth over time
Biography
- Mark Pincus cofounded Zynga, an online social game maker known for Words With Friends, Mafia Wars and FarmVille.
- A serial entrepreneur who made early investments in Facebook and Twitter, Pincus launched several successful businesses before creating Zynga in 2007.
- Pincus served as CEO of Zynga for seven years. The company, which went public in 2011, was acquired by gaming company Take-Two Interactive in 2022 for $12.7 billion.
- In 2018 he founded investment firm Reinvent Capital, which has put money into SpaceX, health insurance firm Oscar and rideshare firm Lyft.
- He has launched three SPACs, including one that took electric air taxi firm Joby Aviation public and one that took insurance firm Hippo Technologies public.
- Zynga is named after Pincus' late dog, Zinga, an American Bulldog. The company's red and white logo is a rendering of the bulldog.
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