Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkinsis an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
technology events share
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
way scared being-scared
The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
trying machines titles
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
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So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new.
keys games focus
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
mistake successful entrepreneur
If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
moments arcades fashionable
Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
healthy pace gamer
Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.
running giving next
From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
thinking support economy
But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.
different done hopefully
You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.
mistake moving personality
You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'
mistake entrepreneur territory
You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.
numbers want defeat
I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.