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Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:59 Harry Stebbings Speaking of like what happens on the seller side, EA going take private at a fifty five billion dollar largest take private of this kind. 4 times in the scene
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:16 Danny Rimer Christian from Playfish was at EA to make an introduction, and Jason gave me 15 minutes, and I showed up at, at, um, a blue bottle, and Jason's like, okay, well, you know, who's a super nice guy.
20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Before Excite, he was in interactive entertainment, in product marketing at Electronic Arts, and development at Crystal Dynamics.
- ▶ 3:27 David Sze I worked for a couple video game companies, Electronic Arts, and Crystal Dynamics, and then this strange thing called the internet started to appear in sort of late, 94, 95, and it looked like a really fascinating development that could…
20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
- ▶ 3:46 Ilkka Paananen And it was also founded by a game industry legend, a guy called Trip Hawkins, who many would know as the founder of Electronic Arts and
20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
- ▶ 13:06 David Helgason He had recently left Electronic Arts.
20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- ▶ 10:18 Josh Buckley The first was that it had a huge base of talent for making video games with EA, Ubisoft, et cetera, about 10,000 engineers in the gaming industry.
20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings Before NG MoCo, Neil spent many years at Electronic Arts, where he was responsible for producing some of EA's most successful game franchises, including, check this out, The Lord of the Rings, The Sims, Medal of Honor, and Command and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:51 Neil Young Richard Branson's Virgin had a game company, which was one of the leading game companies at the time, and then in 1997, I joined a company called Electronic Arts, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Harry Stebbings We're big fans of both Mike and Bing, but I would love to ask, you mentioned your time with EA there, one of the kind of core category defining companies in the space. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, and this is asking from an element of naivety from me not being maybe so, so into tech at the time, but if you compare like the structures of your EAs and
- ▶ 26:46 Neil Young Ultimately, I think that there is an opportunity to build an entirely new type of gaming company and then media company that's born from games, a company that's as enduring as, as electronic arts has been or Activision has been in the…
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- ▶ 1:11 Harry Stebbings Prior to Kleiner, Bing had been a long-time executive at Electronic Arts, beginning with EA's founding in 1982, with initial funding from Kleiner. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:22 Bing Gordon In 1982, I met John Doerr and Brooke Byers, and then also Don Valentine of Sequoia, who were the founding investors in electronic cars.
- ▶ 4:40 Harry Stebbings I am intrigued, though, because a little birdie in the form of Eric Feng told me to ask about some of the early days of EA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:23 Bing Gordon Oh, there's a network, a company, Neil Young, former EA and Virgin, and NG MoCo,
- ▶ 22:26 Bing Gordon I've known, actually, I knew him when he was an intern at Electronic Arts in Vancouver, BC.
20VC: Why Success in Gaming is Like Success in VC, The Key To Building An Enduring Game & Why Few Metrics Matter in Gaming with Kevin Chou, Founder & CEO @ Kabam
- ▶ 6:02 Kevin Chou And if you look at Activision, you look at EA, these thirty billion dollar public companies, they're really trading at that value based on a very small number of games that have been around for many, many years, oftentimes a decade, and…
- ▶ 21:15 Kevin Chou But there's actually a lot of money being put into this, and the companies that are able to run esports, whether it's League of Legends, Activision, EA, Microsoft, these are all very deep-pocketed companies and are incredibly profitable,…
20VC: The Radical Changes In Public Market Expectations, The Right Way To Assess Valuation & What It Means To Be A Disciplined & Diligent Investor with Randy Glein, Partner @ DFJ Growth
- ▶ 30:29 Randy Glein It's led by a very seasoned entrepreneur and CEO, John Riccatello, former CEO of Electronic Arts, the big game development company.
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 5:06 Paul Martino Rich Melman had previously started electronic arts.
20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- ▶ 3:18 Clinton Foy I got to work with some of the greatest creative people on the planet with Final Fantasy, with Kingdom Hearts, Batman, and I loved it, but I always thought there was something a little bit more that I could do, and I started meeting people…
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 18:40 Niccolo De Masi EA, Activision, Take Two.
- ▶ 35:38 Niccolo De Masi Tim Wilson from EA and 2 times in the scene
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Having started off his career with Microsoft, he then made the leap into venture with the world-renowned Axel Partners, where he was a board observer with the likes of Playfish, which were acquired by Electronic Arts, and he made seed…