William Murray "Trip" Hawkins III was born on December 28,1953 and is an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate.
13 Facts About Trip Hawkins
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Trip Hawkins borrowed $5,000 from his father to start up the venture and advertised his game in NFL Game Programs, but the business failed.
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Around this time, in 1975, Trip Hawkins estimated that it would take home computer saturation seven years to make a viable career out of game design.
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Trip Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts, a video game publisher.
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Trip Hawkins has been credited with spearheading the games industry's evolution from simple one-person creations to complex team projects during this time.
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Trip Hawkins saw his opportunity when Sega released the Genesis.
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Trip Hawkins resigned from the board of EA in July, 1994.
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Trip Hawkins had used cash reserves to bail out the failing company before, but declined to do so a final time.
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The defunct company sold most of its intellectual property, including the Might and Magic franchise, to publisher Ubisoft, while Trip Hawkins retained ownership of the 3DO console hardware and software.
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In late 2003, Trip Hawkins launched a new video game development company called Digital Chocolate.
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Trip Hawkins stepped down from the CEO position at Digital Chocolate in May, 2012.
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In 2012, Trip 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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Trip Hawkins joined the advisory board at Skillz, a mobile eSports platform, as a strategic advisor in December 2014.