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Hi All, ✍️ New blog post: The following is a guest post from Mark Pincus (@markpinc), an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist (including signatory of The Giving Pledge), and the founder of Zynga, the pioneering social- and mobile-gaming company behind Zynga Poker, FarmVille, Words with Friends, CSR 2, and many others. Mark earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the strategic product management class at Stanford University. He was an early investor in Facebook, Twitter, and Napster, among other notable startups. Mark is the co-founder of the investment fund Reinvent Capital, which has backed Joby, Aurora, and SpaceX. Prior to Zynga, Mark founded a series of consumer tech companies, including FreeLoader, Inc., which was acquired in 7 months; Support.com, which went public; and the early social network Tribe Networks. Mark’s new book is Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love! The first chapter, “Book of Life,” is below. Please enjoy! Enter Mark... Know your goal or suffer death by 1,000 compromises. At 28, I found myself washed up and living in a junior one-bedroom apartment in Washington, DC. I had been the only kid in my Harvard Business School section to graduate without a job. Over the years, my classmates had become partners at Goldman and McKinsey or had started hedge funds, while I managed to get fired from (or was asked to leave) every place I worked. I was now being pushed out of Columbia Capital, a then-fledgling venture capital firm run by future-senator Mark Warner. I spent my afternoons playing pickup soccer and watching HBO, leaving the office by 4 p.m. At night, I drank beers at the Zoo Bar with my best friend Tom Cole—who was living on my sofa—and a bunch of government mainframe engineers, all of us complaining about our lame jobs. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING... 🎧 New podcast episode:  Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. 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