Activision Blizzard's Final Boss
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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CW: Suicide, Sexual Assault
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No game developer would even think to create a dungeon troll as sinister as Bobby Kotick. Bobby's life is a video game where gobbling up cash is the mission and when it comes to retribution there is no side quest too small!
When the WSJ drops a bombshell report about years of sexual harassment and toxic culture at Activsion Blizard, will Bobby Kotick finally run out of lives? Or will he respawn in the form of a trash goblin who gets bonus points for punching down?
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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Background on Activision Blizzard
09:30 - Bobby Kotick meets Daddy Wynnbucks and becomes an adopted nepo baby, starts game publisher Activision and develops expert level skill in suing people less rich than him
29:30 - Blizzard origin story, early reports of sexual harassment
51:00 - Activision Blizzard merger, Bobby Kotick turns the company into the Triangle Shirtwaist factory while board members look the other way
56:00 - Bobby Kotick completes the CEO right of passage - bending over for the CCP!
60:00 - The lights come on and everyone realizes Bobby Kotick is a little dungeon troll
Note:
Activision Blizzard denied any wrongdoing, and the settlement confirms California Civil Rights Department (CRD) could not substantiate those claims. As part of the settlement, the CRD withdrew the claims related to harassment from its complaint.
Links:
'Scorched earth' and big profits: How embattled gaming titan Bobby Kotick outlasts his opponents
At Blizzard, groping, free-flowing booze and fear of retaliation tainted 'magical' workplace
Blizzard Sets Off Backlash for Penalizing Hearthstone Gamer in Hong Kong
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant
A group of Activision workers say their C.E.O. should step down.
Parents Say Sexual Harassment at Activision Blizzard Led to Their Daughter's Suicide
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast. It's the business podcast for gossip lovers. |
| 0:05.3 | We explore the most absurd corporate scandals, the juiciest Wall Street tea, and the not-so-hidden secrets of famous business people. |
| 0:13.0 | You don't need to know anything about business to enjoy the corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way. |
| 0:20.3 | This is Activision Blizzard's final boss. Speed. |
| 0:41.4 | Vocal fry much? |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.5 | That's what I was going for a while. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm getting ready to watch Love is Blind. |
| 0:46.8 | I assume there's male vocal fry and female vocal fry. |
| 0:51.6 | They're choosing based on the amount of vocal fry. |
| 0:54.1 | Absolutely. It's rampant. Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:59.4 | CPA Scorn, Becca Blatka. I'm here with my co-host and my brother. Data Analytics Playboy |
| 1:04.8 | Anna Blaz. And today, I'm here to introduce officially business boy fall. |
| 1:11.6 | This is the first in our suite of episodes coming up this season. |
| 1:16.6 | On what I'm categorizing as boy companies, do you remember when we were talking, |
| 1:21.6 | going through this list? |
| 1:22.6 | And I was like, Adam, we're doing Activision Blizzard, the Secret Service, and what was the other? Oh, the NCAA name and likeness |
| 1:29.8 | drama. And I'm like, there's too many boy companies. It's name image and likeness. And it's not |
| 1:35.2 | just that, by the way. It's, there's more. I sent you a bunch of reading. Okay, well, we'll get into it. |
| 1:41.1 | But either way, you know what you told me? Well, the NCAA also has women's sports, so I don't think the NCAA is a boy company. But it's based on vibes. But you know what you said to me? I wrote it down. You said it's 2025 and being a girl company is illegal. Yeah, I did say that. Yeah, boy being a boy company is really just a distinction based on vibes. And you noted the WNBA. |
| 2:02.0 | And I'll also note, it's not just men who play video games. It's not just men who are interested in Activision. |
| 2:07.3 | I didn't say the WNBA. I said there not women's sports, but just put things in my mouth. Okay. |
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