CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”::Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”

  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hope he burn in hell. He’s the best example of how not to run a company. It’s insane that he’s not been let go for years now.

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      1 year ago

      That entirely depends on your expectations of a company CEO

      https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ATVI/activision-blizzard/stock-price-history

      I can’t think of a company that wouldn’t hire someone with this kind of stock performance over 30 years.

      The issue is really that consumers just keep spending money on things that they hate.

      If they didnt do that, Bobby would have been gone a long long time ago

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        1 year ago

        I think you’re right. I’m pointing moee to his leadership and how he has allowed sexism and other bad behavior to go on without any consequences. He even told an assistant that he would have her killed… https://www.pcgamer.com/more-shocking-activision-blizzard-revelations-bobby-kotick-once-told-an-assistant-he-was-going-to-have-her-killed/

        He might earn himself and the stockholders a lot of money… But in my eyes he’s a great example of why I don’t like capitalism, but that is another discussion tho!

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          He’s obviously a terrible human being, I think you have to be to be a wildly successful CEO.

          But those are the people who are best at running companies. I wouldn’t be good at it, because I’m not a piece of shit

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            1 year ago

            That’s what sucks about capitalism. We’re allowing thhattype of trash to run it.

            Wow I’m very anti capitalist today!

            • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              The thing that sucks even more about it is no one even has to ‘allow’ that type of trash to run it, it’s just what tends to happen if the profit motive is the main driver of people’s behavior.

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        1 year ago

        Most consumers just don’t care or don’t know at all who Bobby Kotick is. Call of Duty is so popular, but the people that follow the market or the game industry well enough to know the people behind games aren’t that many.