Cool.
One more time.
This is Tripp.
We're on Santa Barbara Radio.
Great.
And there's our opener.
Welcome to season four, episode seven 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 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 Lyft episode, and of course, the home of Sonos, if you listen to that episode.
And today we sit here with Trip 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.
So welcome.
Tripping.
Well, thank you.
I'm delighted to be here.
Yeah, it's great to have you.
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