The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins): The Complete History and Strategy

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Acquired looks back at a monumental IPO from a *much* different era: Electronic Arts. We’re joined by EA’s founder Trip Hawkins to tell the incredible story of how he built the company that made video games mainstream. Starting from his high school years as both a geek and a jock, to then working for Steve Jobs as one of Apple Computer’s first employees and later completely changing the world of sports with John Madden Football, Trip always had a clear vision for what EA could become and what magic could happen at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. Sponsors: Sponsors: More Acquired: Thank you! You're now subscribed to our email list, and will get new episodes when they drop. Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form Transcript: (disclaimer: may contain unintentionally confusing, inaccurate and/or amusing transcription errors) Ben: Welcome to season four, episode seven of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I’m Ben Gilbert. David: I

The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins) | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 4 | episode 7 The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins) Ben: Welcome to season four, episode seven of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I’m Ben Gilbert. David: I’m David Rosenthal. Ben: And we are your hosts. With all these A+ IPOs going on, we wanted to do a throwback episode to another era, 1989, when an IPO meant something very different. We come to you today from sunny Santa Barbara, birthplace of Logan Gree

The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins): The Complete History and Strategy

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