The Curious Cult Show - Episode 1: Trip Hawkins, Electronic Arts Founder

I have been playing video games since I can remember. I owned Pong. I owned the earliest Nintendo. I played Sonic the Hedgehog and just like hundreds of millions of other people I have spent many, many hours playing games produced by Electronic Arts.

Fortunately, I have been lucky enough to talk with Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts for the very first episode of my newest podcast, The Curious Cult Show.

In this show I talk to interesting people about their obsessive curiosities.

Trip was kind enough to talk to me about his obsession with Dungeons and Dragons and how it led him down the path of creating a business plan at the age of 12 to build out what would become Electronic Arts.

Here’s the podcast:

Trip Hawkins, Electron Arts founder.

Trip Hawkins is an incredibly accomplished entrepreneur who has a vast breadth of skills and depth of experience. He is the founder and first CEO of Electronic Arts, was crowned "King of the Nerds" by the Economist, he designed, produced and marketed his first game while still a teenager and at that young age mapped out a 10-year plan that lead him to found Electronic Arts.

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For a long time, I have enjoyed talking to smart people about interesting things. My background, aside from building businesses, is actually journalism and I love interviewing people to extract their genius for others to hear.

This year I decided that I was going to start writing my next book. The topic of the book is curiosity and more specifically how curiosity leads to innovation in the workplace.

So I set out to interview some of the most interesting people I could find.

I’m really excited about The Curious Cult Podcast. Each episode features a person that I wanted to speak to and each episode also serves as research for the book which is coming out in February 2021.

In the first episode, I talk to the founder of Electronic Arts, Trip Hawkins about his curiosity and how it led the creation of one of the largest gaming empires in the world.

Trip Hawkins is an incredibly accomplished entrepreneur who has a vast breadth of skills and depth of experience. He is the founder and first CEO of Electronic Arts, was crowned "King of the Nerds" by the Economist, he designed, produced and marketed his first game while still a teenager and at that young age mapped out a 10-year plan that lead him to found Electronic Arts.

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The show is available on all the major platforms and I’ll be launching a new episode every week for the foreseeable future.

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