American - Businessman | March 1, 1963 -
Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I had spent about a year in Michigan studying the history of art.
Bobby Kotick
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I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity.
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In the mid 1980s, video games as an industry had lost its way a bit. Atari had collapsed. There was this widespread collective belief that it was because video games were a fad.
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One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience.
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I just don't want to pay taxes.
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When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said 'Activision Takeover Defense Fund.' Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell.
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What I'm good at is making sure we have the best resources, the best talent, the best marketing, and the best access to distribution.
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It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader.
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You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.
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I'm not really a music person.
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We've always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn't diminish creativity.
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We don't view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.
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