Engineered a major turnaround with ea announcing record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. So lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. In 2013, the company was struggling in many ways, financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. And we had struggled. And it wasnt because we were a company or because we made bad games. Its because we had lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Thats make games. Thats the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today with, is this good for the player . The Worst Company in america vote feels like an age ago now
Engineered a major turnaround with ea announcing record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. So lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. In 2013, the company was struggling in many ways, financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is the consumerist named you the quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. And we had struggled. And it wasnt because we were a company or because we made bad games. Its because we had lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Thats make games. Thats the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . The Worst Company in america vo
Narrator pursuits car critic Hannah Elliott has a tough job. She gets to drive the most luxurious, hightech cars for a living. Needless to say, hannah has an eye for the best of the best and she says the turbocharged Ferrari Gran Turismo will get you hooked fast. Hannah when you hear the word ferrari, you probably think risque,eek, or maybe risk but you dont think practical. And ferrari is not the first car you think to take to pick up your christmas tree, but that is exactly what i did. I drove a ferrari gtc4 lusso two hours to barclays, a fourth generation orchard and tree farm. I wanted to test out ferrari practicality. Welcome to barclays tree farm. I am steve barclay. Hannah i am Hannah Elliott. Nice to meet you. Lets find your perfect tree. Hannah what kind of trees are these . We got douglas fir and norway spruce and here. Hannah this is great. In here. This is the one . Hannah i like it. It is good. Ok. Lets do it. [chainsaw buzzing] hannah there is not exactly enough room in t
It has made a turnaround with ea announcing record earnings. 1. 0, andrewn studio wilson. So lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. In 2013, the company was struggling in many ways, financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. And we had struggled. And it wasnt because we were a company or because we made bad games. Its because we had lost our focus. We came in and we said what is , the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love, which is made games . Which was our player. So, we started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . The Worst Company in america vote feels like an age ago now, but its still at the forefront of o
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