In 2004, he invested $5 million of his own money into Songs Music Publishing with Ron Perry, a fellow EMI alum.
[11] Under Pincus' leadership, the label represented a clientele of 300 artists, including chart-topping musicians such as Lorde, Diplo, and The Weeknd.
[12][13] In 2015, he testified before the United States Senate to demand a revamp of the country's system for calculating songwriter royalties and warned against the encroachment of Big Tech on the music publishing industry.
[17] In 2017, Pincus and Perry were named to the Billboard magazine's Power 100 list, which ranks the most influential businesspeople in the music industry.
[19] In 2018, Pincus joined LionTree as executive-in-residence and took up an advisory role at Snap Inc.[20] He has been a member of the board of directors of the National Music Publishers' Association, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Songwriters Hall of Fame, the financial services startup HIFI,[21][22] and the music creation platform Splice, of which he is also an investor.