Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedTrip Hawkins: prediction
27 May 2019 Acquired The Electronic Arts IPO (with Trip Hawkins)
“You know, nobody’s talking about it and then, we just started cranking out better quarterly results, astronomically better quarterly results for the next several quarters then it took, I don’t know, another year or two and the company was worth $2 billion.”
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- Speaker
- Trip Hawkins
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 27 May 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Okay. But then it dropped to $60 million and this persisted. I think we actually hit bottom later that year. Here we are announcing we’re going to do Sega, but the market’s going, “Who the hell is Sega? Sega’s got no position in this business.” We don’t know if we’re going to lose that money or what. You know, nobody’s talking about it and then, we just started cranking out better quarterly results, astronomically better quarterly results for the next several quarters then it took, I don’t know, another year or two and the company was worth $2 billion. I mean, it just really transformed the next year or two. And was that Madden for Sega that just created all that revenue?…
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