Going from Showdown to Good Times - 2004-01-25
It was a problematic move, to say the least. Robert Kotick had put down $440,000 in December 1990 to seize control of the video game manufacturer Activision, then nearly insolvent. By the next February, as its new chief executive, he found himself head to head with the company's creditors.
That, perhaps, and an effusive personality. As a college student, he charmed his way onto the private jet of the casino mogul Steve Wynn following a meeting with him at a party in Dallas.
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