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
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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
It strengthening after the bank of japan seems to be pairing some of the bonds. Asian equities see a little bit of movement on dollar yen. For also looking at a stock 600. 600. Oxx eurodollar is at 1. 1936. Coming up, we talk Central Banks. With ouriscuss it guests from blackrock. We also have an exclusive conversation with ignacio gallant. Ignore this. This is something from a couple weeks ago. Lets get straight to the first world news. North korea has said it will send athletes and a delegation to the winterland picks and south korea next month and wants to resolve issues on the divided peninsula. Delegates from saul said that south korea wants both nations to march together at the games. The two sides held talks in a village in the joint security area of the heavily fortified border. U. S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has like raise the likelihood Donald Trumps legal team that his office will seek an interview with the president. According to people familiar with the talks, miller
Appreciate all of the support from everyone. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Emily im emily chang. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, a bloomberg scoop. Apple dives deeper into ar and could have been augmented reality headset in stores by 2019. How the new device will stack up against competition. Plus, a startup going headtohead with amazon. The ceo, bashed in lemon bastian lehmann, joins us. The l. A. Clippers owner and former microsoft ceo joins us for a wideranging interview. Venture intends to hold the government accountable for achieving tax goals. Bloomberg is reporting that apple is said to be developing an augmented reality headset that could be in stores by 2019. A couple things will set this apart from existing available ar devices. It will contain its own display, so you wont have to insert your smartphone into the rig. It will