Pincus don't know Zaadz

In the wake of the recent buzz about Mark Pincus' re-takeover of tribe, I sent him a message on tribe letting him know I was happy that he was back and that zaadz was open to collaboration with the new tribe.

Mark's response?

"hey aaron, thanks. what does your company do?"

ok...

I pointed him in the direction of some info about zaadz and how we played into that whole tribe exodus thing, but haven't heard anything back yet. I was actually surprised that he hadn't heard about us but my guess is that Mark has been out of the scene for a while and that was why he decided to leave the company in the first place.

I've always been a fan of tribe but with the direction that it's taken, it really alienated its core demographic by hiring a corporate exec and trying to go 'mainstream' without considering the impact those decisions would have on tribe's biggest advocates.

Pincus' return to the company has prompted comparisons to Jobs taking back Apple, but I'm not sure if Mark is that visionary. I get the sense that Mark thinks if tribe can become 'cool' again, that's all they'll need to survive, and I'm not sure that is the case in this market.

I'm eager to see what comes of the takeover though. I have some ideas for how they could take what they have and leverage it but I'm going to save those ideas for zaadz ;)