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Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. Lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. 2013, the company was struggling financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. [laughter] andrew somewhere in there is some truth. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. We said, what is the...

Record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. Lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. 2013, the company was struggling financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. It is ...

Wilson, longtime gamer, musician, and surfer has engineered a major turnaround with ea announcing record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. Lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. In 2013, the company was struggling financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in th...

A year later, we were launching another battlefield game and it was not quite ready. You follow our industry, firstperson shooters always launch in the quarter right before the holidays. We had to make a decision for our players. We could launch it, but the game is not ready. So we held it. That was the big move to hold the biggest game in the biggest quarter and ship it six months later. Once players see that, they recognize we were serious. We have made a series of decisions like that in service of our player. You look after them, they look after you. Emily what are you excited about most th...

We are looking forward to a year of trying to make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. Just a recap of last year briefly. Last year the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and senate and passed into law. It provided with resources to address the opiod and heroin epidemic. We passed the act at the very end of the 114th congress. It added an additional 1 billion of funding to combat this epidemic. The house rolled out in the course of one week 18 bills last year that really became the foundation and much of the detail of what ultimately w...