It’s official: EA is going private.
The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250929186526/en/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-%2455-Billion
In a deal involving a company owned by Jared Kushner, a company that is basically just the Saudis, and $20B of debt.
I think they were asking for a timeline… you gotta start the popcorn at just the right time so it’s nice and hot when shit starts to get good… you don’t want it during the previews.
So how long before the private equity firms strip mine EA for all it’s worth, and force it to rent back it’s offices, which force it to bankruptcy?
What do you mean “before”? This right now is the start of that.
I think they were asking for a timeline… you gotta start the popcorn at just the right time so it’s nice and hot when shit starts to get good… you don’t want it during the previews.