Mark Pincus

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Mark Pincus is the CEO and a co-founder of Zynga, an online social gaming network. Previously he was a co-founder and CEO of Tribe Networks.

He grew up in Chicago. After business school, he spend a short stint working at TCI and Liberty Media out of Denver, but left to launch Freeloader, and moved to Washington, D.C. and subsequently San Francisco. After selling Freeloader, Pincus launched Support.com (today publicly traded as Supportsoft nasd: sprt), and then Tribe.net.

Mark Pincus caused controversy in the blogosphere in July 2006 when he disclosed that SixApart was attempting to censor his blog posting, by requesting that he not write about Murry Gunty, a self-confessed election fraudster while at Harvard Business School.

Mark holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from the Wharton School and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

[edit] External links

• Tribe.net
• Mark Pincus Blog
• Mark Pincus links
• Crimson Article on Gunty Election Fraud