Peter Barrett (entrepreneur)

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]

Peter Barrett
OccupationEntrepreneur
EmployerPlayground Global
Known forRocket Science Games

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]

gollark: That's what I do. Hours of fiddling around randomly can save minutes of reading manuals.
gollark: Have you tried setting it to random values and seeing which ones don't cause it to not work?
gollark: https://lib.rs/crates/ropey
gollark: > It’s just fucking litecoin and they say it’s some fancy software> It’s not litecoin
gollark: You just said you couldn't mine as a user.

References
  1. "Rocket Science". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  2. "Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  3. Lunden, Ingrid. "CloudCar, The Stealthy Startup That Andy Rubin Is *Not* Joining, Has Raised $11.5M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  4. "CloudCar | CrunchBase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  5. "Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  6. "The man who created Android is raising $300 million for his mysterious new project". Business Insider. Retrieved 2016-03-23.


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