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] He has also held executive positions at Microsoft[4] and WebTV, where he worked with Playground co-founders Andy Rubin and Bruce Leak.[5]
Barrett also co-founded Rocket Science Games, a video game development company, where he helped pioneer CD-ROMs as a video game distribution method.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Rocket Science". WIRED. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ "Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI". WIRED. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "CloudCar, The Stealthy Startup That Andy Rubin Is *Not* Joining, Has Raised $11.5M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ "Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator". Fortune. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ "The man who created Android is raising $300 million for his mysterious new project". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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