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 is, is this good for the player . The Worst Company in america vote feels like an age ago now, but its still at the forefron
Coulter. So, tpg is an investor in uber, airbnb, vice, spotify. What do all these companies have in common and what does it tell us about your strategy . Jim i think they all have in common the fact that theyre driving disruptions in their industries. In some ways, if you look at the history of tpg, while we are often called a private equity firm, from the very beginning when we started with continental airlines, people began thinking we were airline investors, but really, that was a moment in time. We have not done much airline investing in 10 years, but since that founding 25 years ago, we have constantly specialized in finding where the economy is changing and how we can expose capital to it. Emily you and David Bonderman cofounded tpg in 1992. You were both working for the texas billionaire. What was it in those early days that set the stage for what tpg became . Jim we came to the industry from a different place. First of all, its a bit aggressive to call it an industry in 1990. I
So, tpg is an investor in uber, airbnb, vice, spotify. What do all these companies have in common and what does it tell us about your strategy . Jim i think they all have in common that they are driving disruptions in their industries. In some ways, if you look at the history of tpg, while we are often called a private equity firm, from the very beginning when we started with continental airlines, people began thinking the were airline investors, but that was a moment in time. We have not done much airline investing in 10 years, but since that founding 25 years ago, we have constantly specialized in finding where the economy is changing and how we can expose capital to it. Emily you and David Bonderman cofounded tpg in 1993. You were both working for a texas billionaire. What was it in those early days that set the stage for what tpg became . Jim we came to the industry from a different place. First of all, it is a bit aggressive to call it an industry in 1990. In fact, it was a backwa
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