Episode 4: Bungie (with Xbox Co-Founder Ed Fries)

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ben and David are joined by Former Microsoft VP and Co-Founder of Xbox, Ed Fries, to discuss the Bungie acquisition and the development of Halo. Highlights include:

Ed’s call with Steve Jobs after the acquisition, and sharing the stage with Steve and Bungie Co-Founder Alex Seropian at the Macworld Keynote.
Bungie today, and the unlikely path to get there led by Harold Ryan.
How to find something that all parties want to get a deal done, the creation Peter Tamte’s spin-out Mac gaming studio, and orchestrating the division of current Bungie projects and assets with Take-Two, led by Ryan Brandt.
Saving a project that’s off schedule and missing the mark, and how Jason Jones led the effort to make Halo 2 a hit at launch.

Sponsors:
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta

Statsig: bit.ly/statsigacquired
Modern Treasury: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	All right listeners, our sponsor is one of our favorite companies, Vanta, and we have something very new from them to share.
0:07.0	Of course, you know Vanta enables companies to generate more revenue by getting their compliance certifications.
0:12.8	That's SAC 2, ISO 2701.
0:15.7	But the thing that we want to share now
0:17.9	is Vanta has grown to become the best security compliance
0:21.4	platform as you hit hyper growth and scale into a larger enterprise.
0:26.9	It's kind of wild.
0:27.9	When we first started working with Vanta and met Christina, my gosh, I've had like a couple
0:31.6	hundred customers, maybe.
0:33.7	Now they've got 5,000, some of the largest companies out there, it's awesome.
0:38.3	Yeah, and they offer a tremendous amount of customization now for more complex security needs. So if you're a larger company and in the
0:45.2	past you showed Vanta to your compliance department you might have heard something like, oh well we've already got a compliance
0:50.4	process in place and we can't integrate this new thing.
0:53.0	But now, even if you already have a sock to,
0:56.0	Vanta makes maintaining your compliance even more efficient and robust.
1:00.0	They launched vendor risk management.
1:02.0	This allows your company to quickly understand the they launched vendor risk management.
1:02.6	This allows your company to quickly understand the security posture of the vendors
1:06.9	that you're choosing in a standardized way that cuts down on security review times.
1:11.3	This is great.
1:12.0	And then on the customization front they now also
1:14.4	enable custom frameworks built around your controls and policies. Of course that's
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.