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Activision Blizzard

also referred to as: activision

9 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2019 by Bobby Kotick · said 40 times in 8 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (20), John Riccitiello (6), Bobby Kotick (4), Sonal Chokshi (3), Chris Dixon (3), Jonathan Lai (2), Bennett Carrocchio (1), Andrew Chen (1)

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Everything said about Activision Blizzard, oldest first

Feb 26, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Activision traded a 51% stake for Blizzard and $2B in cash
“We'll stay a public company, you sell us Blizzard, or give us Blizzard and two billion of cash, and we'll give you 51% of the company.”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 14:24 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Feb 26, 2019 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Activision Blizzard serves 400 million customers across 196 countries
“Today, we sell in a 196 countries around the world. We have four hundred million customers and anyone in any socioeconomic strata can actually play games.”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 19:42 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Feb 26, 2019
Disclosure
Kotick bought a 25% stake in Activision for $440,000 in 1990
“So I bought a 25% stake in Activision for 440,000 dollars, and I became the largest shareholder.”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 9:45 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Feb 26, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Activision Blizzard players average one hour of daily gameplay
“Video game, our average duration of gameplay, that includes games like Candy Crush, is an hour per person per day. Games like Call of Duty or World of Warcraft are hours a day.”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 28:22 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Feb 26, 2019
Assertion Supported
Activision was history's first third-party video game developer
“Activision, I believe this is correct, was the first third-party developer of video games.”
Marc Andreessen Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 6:10 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Feb 26, 2019
Assertion Contradicted
Activision offered up to $7B to buy Blizzard standalone from Vivendi
“And I asked them to sell us Blizzard, and we didn't have any interest in the rest of their games business, but we wanted Blizzard. And they said no repeatedly, and we offered them four billion, and then five billion, and then six billion, and then seven billio…”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 14:08 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Feb 26, 2019
Disclosure
Building a WoW competitor internally would have cost $1B and seven years
“And we looked at it and said, if we even could figure out how to do it would take us Five, six, seven years, and a billion dollars, and the likelihood is we wouldn't do a good job of it”
Bobby Kotick Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 12:22 a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
Jun 7, 2019
Assertion Supported
Carrocchio: Twitch paid Activision Blizzard $90 million for Overwatch broadcast rights
“Twitch paid Activision Blizzard ninety million dollars to broadcast the Overwatch League's first two seasons.”
Bennett Carrocchio Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 4:06 What's Next for Esports Startups
Dec 16, 2023
Assertion Supported
Lai: Mobile gaming was won by new startups, not legacy publishers
“The winners in mobile games were largely new companies Supercell, King, Zynga, and not the PC console and companies, right? It wasn't Electronic Arts or Activision or Microsoft.”
Jonathan Lai Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 13:58 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
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