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Noah Kagan Presents

From English Major to Co-founder of Electronic Arts (w/ Bing Gordon)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bing Gordon was the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Electronic Arts, the popular video game company.

In his twenties, Bing did a lot of interesting things. He wrote poetries in college, tried acting for a year, and even did commercial fishing.

Then he worked at EA for over 26 years and contributed to the marketing and design of many best-selling games such as The Sims and John Madden Football.

Today, he is an investor, company advisor, and just full of wisdom.

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0:00.0

My regret and my 20s is I didn't create enough historical artifacts.

0:05.0

You know, write stuff down, write down your ideas, write down your plans,

0:10.0

that that becomes then data by stock or predict on stock, but write it down.

0:17.0

We falsely remember the past if you don't write it on.

0:21.0

So write it down and for one thing you see how stupid you used to be.

0:23.7

What is up you sexy bastards it's your boy Jupiter aka

0:29.4

rabbic can't lose aka noa kegan in today's, I talked to Bing Gordon. He was the co-founder of Electronic Arts, the

0:36.2

super popular game company y'all are familiar with. Now in his 20s, Bing did a lot of

0:40.4

interesting things. He wrote poetry in college. tried acting for year, and even did commercial

0:44.6

fishing. Then he worked at EA for over 26 years, contributed to the marketing design of

0:48.2

so many best-selling games as The Sims and John Madden football. Today he is a super successful investor, company advisor and just got a lot of great wisdom.

0:56.0

If you've ever wanted to learn about how to live an unconventional life and make the best of your 20s plus beyond, you're going to love this episode.

1:02.0

Here's three gigantic things you're going to take away.

1:04.0

Number one, why retiring young is very boring. Two, expensive mistakes people make in their

1:09.1

20s. And three, a simple but effective way to evaluate your executive team.

1:13.2

What is it?

1:13.9

Enjoy there three things, plus a bunch more in your nuggets along the way.

1:16.7

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1:18.8

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1:20.4

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1:22.8

So if you're looking to start or grow your online business,

1:25.0

you're going to check out AppSuma.com slash NOAA.

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