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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:23:05 Ben Gilbert I think it was maybe Walt's Folly, but either way, it's the exact same thing that people said about Trip Hawkins when he was working on Madden, about Jack Bogle with Bogle's Folly, with creating the Vanguard index funds.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:33 David Rosenthal Shortly after Liberty acquires F-one, that studio gets acquired by Electronic Arts, makers of Madden and FIFA that do billions of dollars of revenue for EA and their league partners every year.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:34:02 David Rosenthal There's other licensing rights, particularly video games at Madden.
- ▶ 2:34:07 David Rosenthal So I don't think it's public, but it was reported that the latest Madden licensing deal with EA was a total of 1.6 billion dollars for a five year rights.
- ▶ 2:34:19 David Rosenthal Which, man, remember that episode we did with Trip on EA back in the day was so fun and talking about the origins of Madden.
- ▶ 2:39:15 David Rosenthal Maybe the Madden deal is in there.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:11:08 Ben Gilbert So on the EA episode where he interviewed Trip Hawkins, sort of talked about how famously Madden was Trip's folly.