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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1056: The Landmark

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast marks my last Drive to Work where I drive into our offices at The Landmark. In this episode, I talk all about the history of our Wizards of the Coast offices.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay guys, so today is my final drive to work in our current offices.

0:13.0

So what is going on is we are leaving our Linde offices and we are going to be going to a new offices. Although the new offices aren't going to be ready for a little while, so I'm working from home.

0:25.3

So most of my driver works for the next bunch of months will be home edition, because they'll not be driving anywhere.

0:32.9

But since today was the final day in our office, I thought I would talk all about the office

0:38.3

and share some stories about our office and what it's like to work at Wizards.

0:42.9

Like, what are our offices like?

0:44.8

And I also tell a little bit of history of our offices.

0:49.0

But anyway, today's all about our office.

0:51.5

Today's the final day in our office after, I don't know, 17, 18 years, and then 10 years

0:58.2

before that across the street.

0:59.5

Anyway, so let me begin.

1:01.5

Let me tell the story of the history of Wizard of the Ghost's offices, for those that

1:06.9

are dying to know the history.

1:09.0

So Wizards of the Coast got founded, I think in 1990, but late 80s, early 90s, by five people,

1:18.6

one of which was Peter Ackeson, who was the first CEO of Wizards.

1:22.6

And originally, it was a very small company, so much so that the people who are working at the

1:31.2

company were doing it as a part-time thing, meaning, for example, when Peter started Wizards

1:37.6

the Coast, he had a job at Boeing, and he still had a job at Boeing during the early years of

1:42.5

Wizards of the Coast because Wizards hadn't done well enough to sort of...

1:47.0

Like, Peter hadn't left it yet to sort of just be dedicated to Wizards.

1:52.5

So the first sort of office, quote-unquote, was in Peter Ackison's basement.

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