Electronic Arts

Categories: Video Games | Products | Companies
    • Stock symbol: ERTS
    • Annual revenue (2008): $4.0 Billion
    • Founder(s): Trip Hawkins
    • Year Established: 1982
    • Industry: Interactive Entertainment
    • Phone: (650) 628-1500
    • Fax: (650) 628-1422
    • HQ: Redwood City, California
    • Chairman: Lawrence F. Probst III
    • CEO: John S. Riccitiello
    • Staff: 7,900
    • Other key people: Gabrielle Toledano
  • EA Games, which changed its name to Electronic Arts in 2005, is a publicly owned company that develops, publishes, markets, and sells video games. Some of EA's most popular gaming titles include Medal of Honor, Command & Conquer, Burnout, and Madden.
  • Key Dates

    1. 1982: EA Games was founded
    2. 1989: First Madden Game
    3. 1997: Acquired rights to the name Electronic Arts
    4. 2008: Failed takeover of Take Two

  • Popular Games

  • Founding

    In 1982, while working a director of Product Marketing at Apple, EA founder Trip Hawkins took a meeting with Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Hawkins' idea for a software company called Amazin' Software. After investing $200,000 of his own money into the project, Hawkins was able to secure an additional $2,000,000 in venture capital from Sequoia, KCPB and Sevin Rosen Funds.

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