{"id":965728,"date":"2025-10-03T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965728"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:43:34","slug":"from-riyadh-to-silicon-valley-how-ea-became-the-jewel-of-saudi-arabias-gaming-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/from-riyadh-to-silicon-valley-how-ea-became-the-jewel-of-saudi-arabias-gaming-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"From Riyadh to Silicon Valley: How EA became the jewel of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s gaming vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, tech-focused buyout group Silver Lake coveted video game developer Electronic Arts, the power behind the popular &#8220;Battlefield&#8221; and &#8220;Madden NFL&#8221; series. <\/p>\n<p>In a brainstorming session this spring, Silver Lake investors and U.S. President Trump&#8217;s son-in-law Jared Kushner started hammering out plans for what became the world&#8217;s largest leveraged buyout, three sources familiar with the talks said. One of the people said the talks started between Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban and Kushner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, tech-focused buyout group Silver Lake coveted video game developer Electronic Arts, the power behind the popular &#8220;Battlefield&#8221; and &#8220;Madden NFL&#8221; series. In a brainstorming session this spring, Silver Lake investors and U.S. President Trump&#8217;s son-in-law Jared Kushner started hammering out plans for what became the world&#8217;s largest leveraged buyout, three sources familiar with the talks said. One of the people said the talks started between Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban and Kushner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}