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19 published records
“” Frankly, the gradings are frankly more arbitrary in these IPOs, but the discussion I think is the more important part and the thing that I indexed on, what I lean really positive on grading the transaction and we don’t care as much about on how it went mechanically like, “Yeah, the stock dipped afterwards.”
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“Look, I had put the playbook together, so the Sega version had I think 135 plays, Montana had 13.”
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“Meanwhile, I think, as of 2013, Madden had done $4 billion in revenue as a franchise and has only continued to grow from there.”
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“I didn't realize at that moment—and this is like 1984—this 16-bit technology, it's already coming, it turns out it was going to be a while, and in 8-bit, it wasn't really quite good enough now. We thought, "Okay, this will take a year.”
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“In fact, there’s a lot of big tech companies like Oracle, I think maybe 20% of their employees have stock options.”
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“Again, I think, what Jim Simmons did in building that first version was among the most amazing work I’ve seen done in my career.”
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“I think after those two rounds that EA did it, they probably owned close to half.”
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“I think public most listeners don't remember this, but his Hall of Fame coaching career was with the Raiders and Al Davis, the Just Win Baby era.”
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“Input the stats for all of us, who's also I think your stats are, and then go home and learn the plays.”
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““...and you better have some conviction about what you’re doing because I’m investing in you.”
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“Anyway, it is very interesting because then you have a decade after he gets booted out where Apple keeps losing share, and it was Steve's fault, actually because he wanted it Microsoft apps for the Mac.”
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“The Apple 2 turned out to be a huge business, and it lasted much longer than anyone else thought which is the good things that kept Apple alive because then Steve and I went out to scheme out the next generation.”
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“Because they were running an ad campaign in the Hobby Magazine saying that Apple was the world’s best-selling personal computer, and it wasn’t the truth.”
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“I have no idea what's going to happen 40 years from now. I don't know about you.”
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“With these three IPOs when I was around, Apple went at the time it was perfectly appropriate for Apple to do it. It was a mix blessing because it clearly changed the culture of the company in a negative way, but it really did help put the company on the map, and give it plenty of resources.”
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“I think if you’re going to take something public, you’ve got to have a really concrete idea of what operating business model you have, and then you’re going to be able to continue to systematically move forward and fairly steadily improve upon.”
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“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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“I was already a really big fan of the Motorola MC68000 processor because Steve and I had picked it for Apple's next-gen machines.”
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“Well, I think one of the things I had learned from some of the courses I had taken in business school, that you probably don't want to start a company.”
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