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The Video Game King: The Early Years of Trip Hawkins - Click To Read Article
“When I was a kid it was the golden age of television when ‘Leave it to Beaver’ was on, and I just noticed with my friends that everyone wanted to watch TV, and I thought TV was kind of slow and not very interactive.”
Gaming His Way To The Top: Hawkins Makes It Big, Twice - Click To Read Article
“I founded Electronic Arts in 1982, but I really started thinking about it in 1972, 10 years beforehand, when I saw computers,” recalls Hawkins. “I started thinking about what I wanted to do for them.”
Lesson #1: “If you get knocked down, get back up again” - Click To Read Article
“I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again,” says Hawkins. “I don’t really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.”
Lesson #2: “You are nuts and you should be proud of it” - Click To Read Article
“One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you’re nuts,” advises Hawkins. “You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.”
Lesson #3: “If you don’t have a lot of passion for it, you’re not gonna make it” - Click To Read Article
“I have probably the best personal collection of games you’re going to find anywhere,” admits Hawkins. “I’ve just been a nut for almost any form of software, but games especially whether it’s card games, board games, computer games, video games, I’ve just got a spectacular collection. And of course now I have four kids that are at different ages, so when we want to play, boy, we’ve just got a fantastic set of choices.”
Lesson #4: “Every market has unique characteristics” - Click To Read Article
Hawkins works in one of the most fiercely competitive global industries. But what he has learned over the years is that what works well in one country, could blow up in his face in another. Knowing the unique characteristics of his markets is thus one of his most important tasks as an executive.
Lesson #5: “I feel very comfortable out there, being out on the frontier where it’s rough and unclear” - Click To Read Article
“I always find myself out on the leading edge of these new media, and since I’ve done it now for so long, I feel very comfortable out there, being out on the frontier where it’s rough and unclear and a lot of things have to be sorted out,” says Hawkins. “I don’t mind making that longer-term investment and figuring things out and waiting for it all to come around. And there’s always a lot of confusion in the beginning and different ways of thinking about it as a business. And that’s what I’ve always loved doing is being out there on the front, figuring that out for the first time.”
Entrepreneur On The Move: How Hawkins Is Taking Mobile to New Dimensions - Click To Read Article
“When I first saw a computer, I knew, this was the answer for me,” says Hawkins. “I was going to be able to make real life in a box and expose the kind of games I wanted to play to the public.”
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