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Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court

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Sean Hollister
Mark “Business Council” on your bingo card.

Lockheimer has just been asked about that time Google went to its Business Council (anybody got bingo yet?) to try to get approval to offer Epic a big $147M deal to get Fortnite on the Play Store rather than launching elsewhere.

He says yes, you have to go to the Business Council for certain kinds of expenditures.

And Lockheimer was listed atop the stack of seven “Deal Representatives” who pitched the Business Council on this deal.

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