Comments on: No. 2 Electronic Arts exec John Pleasants on his defection to hot startup Playdom http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/06/18/john-pleasants-talks-about-shifting-from-a-giant-video-game-company-to-a-small-one/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: marjoriemstr http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/06/18/john-pleasants-talks-about-shifting-from-a-giant-video-game-company-to-a-small-one/comment-page-1/#comment-865265 marjoriemstr Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:45:14 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=109821#comment-865265 EA 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. EA 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.

]]> By: mrzod http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/06/18/john-pleasants-talks-about-shifting-from-a-giant-video-game-company-to-a-small-one/comment-page-1/#comment-864934 mrzod Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:51:34 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=109821#comment-864934 Dean, good write up. Dean, good write up.

]]> By: emad http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/06/18/john-pleasants-talks-about-shifting-from-a-giant-video-game-company-to-a-small-one/comment-page-1/#comment-864876 emad Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:20:42 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=109821#comment-864876 Congrats to John! I can vouch for his startup skills! :-) Congrats to John! I can vouch for his startup skills! :-)

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