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From humble shoe salesman to a bird’s eye view of video game history | Peter Moore interview

Peter Moore is a legend of the game industry. He told us in a fireside chat at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event that he had humble roots as a soccer coach and a shoe salesman. He rose through the ranks at Reebok as a marketer, and then Bernie Stolar asked Moore if he wanted to […]

Moore helped convince Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that they had to replace (600,000) failed game consoles at a cost of $1.15 billion or lose face with gamers. 2 job at Electronic Arts, where he oversaw businesses such as EA Sports, and he also had a successful run as the general manager of the pro soccer team in his hometown, Liverpool FC. Peter Moore was a winning general manager for Liverpool FC.It’s this concept many of you have heard about that Joseph Schumpeter coined, an economist in the aftermath of World War II, called creative destruction.

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