Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and C podcast. Today's episode features Mark Andreessen interviewing

Bobby Kodick, CEO of Fortune 500 company Activision Blizzard, the largest game network in the world,

responsible for popular entertainment franchises such as Call of Duty, Candy Crush, and World of Warcraft.

The discussion originally took place at our most recent

annual Innovation Summit and covers everything from the evolution of games in the 80s to the

mergers and acquisitions that created the company he runs today to trends in gaming, including

touching on e-sports. You can also find other podcasts and videos from this event at A6NZ.com slash summit.

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So Bobby, it is really fun as a longtime video game aficionado. Really fun to have the chance

to talk to you today. I would love to start with your origin story, as they say in the superhero

business. So part of your origin story, if I recall correctly, is that you started writing software

for the Apple II while you were still in college.

So my college roommate and I started a company,

he worked at Apple Computer in France.

He was French.

And his summer internship, he was working for a guy called Jean-League Essei.

And they had a prototype of the Lisa.

The Lisa was the Mac before the Mac.

It was the $10,000 version of the Mac.

So he saw this prototype of the Lisa

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