About Bing Gordon
Born 1950. Bing Gordon is an American engineer.
William "Bing" Gordon is a video game executive and technology venture capitalist. He served ten years as Chief Creative Officer of video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts (EA) prior to his current partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). He was a founding director of Audible.com and has served on several high-profile Boards of Directors including Amazon, Ngmoco, Duolingo, and Zynga. He designed the video games Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Sid Meier's SimGolf and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth.
Career Gordon graduated from Cranbrook School in 1968. He studied drama and literature and earned a BA from Yale University. He moved to the Bay Area where he received an MBA from Stanford in 1978 after acting for a period in New York City.
Gordon joined the Amazon Board of Directors in 2003 and resigned in 2017.
Awards Gordon was the recipient of the 2011 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Who is Bing Gordon?
American video game executive
When was Bing Gordon born?
Bing Gordon was born in 1950.
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Bing Gordon is an engineer.
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Bing Gordon is American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Bing Gordon. https://biography.guide/bing-gordon/
MLA: "Bing Gordon." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/bing-gordon/.
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