“The first time was about not having private offices. The other time was this.”
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Trip Hawkins
William Murray "Trip" Hawkins III is an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate.
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business · American businessman (born 1953) · entrepreneur · also Trip Hawkins, Hawkins
Born 28 December 1953 · Q460459
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2026· 3 entries
“that $2 million cap saved us $35 million.”
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“Prosperity is just around the corner.”
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2013· 1 entry
Nativex, a mobile ad technology platform for games, announced Trip Hawkins as a senior advisor to their board of directors
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2012· 1 entry
Hawkins joined the board of directors of Israeli technology company Extreme Reality, which is working on developing motion control software that can read a person's movement in 3D, but which only requires a 2D camera
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2005· 1 entry
Hawkins became the eighth person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame
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1996· 1 entry
3DO stopped developing the system and transitioned into a video game developer, making games for the PlayStation, PC, and other consoles
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1994· 2 entries
Transitioned from EA in 1991 to form 3DO, a video game console company
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With the arrival of the PlayStation and Saturn, both of which were less expensive than the 3DO but had more modern hardware and stronger first party support
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1993· 3 entries
“If you look at any institution in history – look at the Roman Empire – anything in history, and what it looks like when it’s peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it’s not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to – everything does.”
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“[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.”
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“[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.”
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1988· 1 entry
“He would go up to the assistant coaches, hand them paper. And they would draw up plays! We collected a huge amount of plays that way.”
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1982· 2 entries
Career landmark: chief executive officer (1982–1991).
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When he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video game publisher
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1975· 1 entry
Hawkins estimated that it would take home computer saturation seven years to make a viable career out of game design
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-12-28.
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