Peter Barrett (entrepreneur)
Peter Barrett | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Employer | Playground Global |
| Known for | Rocket Science Games |
Peter Barrett is an Australian entrepreneur.[1] He is a co-founder of Playground Global, a venture fund and design studio providing resources, mentorship and funding to startups making hardware devices.[2] Prior to Playground, Barrett served as CTO at CloudCar, a cloud-based consumer products startup.[3][4] He has also held executive positions at Microsoft[5] and WebTV, where he worked with Playground co-founders Andy Rubin and Bruce Leak.[6]
Barrett also co-founded Rocket Science Games, a video game development company, where he helped pioneer CD-ROM’s as a video game distribution method.[1]
Patents
Barrett holds more than 100 patents.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Rocket Science". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ "Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid. "CloudCar, The Stealthy Startup That Andy Rubin Is *Not* Joining, Has Raised $11.5M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ a b "CloudCar | CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ "Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ "The man who created Android is raising $300 million for his mysterious new project". Business Insider. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
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