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VentureBeat: John Pleasants talks about shifting from a giant video game company to a small one
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emad · 5 months agoCongrats to John! I can vouch for his startup skills! :-)
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mrzod · 5 months agoDean, good write up.
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marjoriemstr · 5 months agoEA lost a super executive in John Pleasants. They also 'lost' face in the general coverage of this event. Brown's insistence on painting John P's move as a result of EA deciding to hire back the other John reeks of furious story rewriting on EA's part - very ungracious and poorly played. It is always a pleasure to see successful c-level execs, like John Pleasants, eschew the safety in numbers of a large compay like EA to apply their skills where they can do some good: at nimble, innovative start-ups. Dean: your article above seems to think it is odd or even bad that Pleasants has left a 9,000 strong company, well, it's bad for them...it's pretty good for Pleasants. EA has reached a level of bloat that retards its innovation. Like MSFT, EA may have enough mass to maintain a significant presence for a while longer, but I don't doubt that smaller companies, like Playdom or SGN will be able to outshine EA in brilliance and share.
