Cool, one more time? This is Tripp. We're on Santa Barbara Radio.

Great. And there's our opener. Welcome to Season 4, episode 7 of Acquired.

The podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs.

I'm Ben Gilbert.

I'm David Rosenthal.

And we are your hosts.

With all these A-plus IPOs going on, And we are your hosts.

With all these A-plus IPOs going on, we wanted to do a throwback episode to another era

1989 where an IPO meant something very different.

We come to you today from Sunny Santa Barbara, birthplace of Logan Green's Transportation Dream,

if you listen to the Lift episode, and of course the home of Sonos, if you listen to that episode.

And today we sit here with Tripp Hawkins, the founder of the most legendary gaming company

in the world, Electronic Arts.

Tripp worked as an early employee at Apple Computer as the Director of Strategy and Marketing

until 1982 before starting EA, taking it public, and later moving on to start other companies

in the gaming space such as 3DO and Digital Chocolate.

Tripp is now a professor of practice in the technology management program at the

University of California, Santa Barbara, and we are incredibly lucky to have him

here with us today. welcome trip well thank you I'm delighted to be here

Yeah, it's great to have you for anyone who's new to the show here's how it works We walk through the history and facts of a company from

founding all the way through an acquisition or IPO. Then we analyze and grade the transaction

where we issue judgment on if that was a good idea or not.

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