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Peter Barrett (entrepreneur)

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Peter Barrett
OccupationEntrepreneur
EmployerPlayground Global
Known forRocket 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

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  1. ^ a b Snider, Burr. "Rocket Science". WIRED. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  2. ^ Tanz, Jason. "Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI". WIRED. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  3. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (22 June 2012). "CloudCar, The Stealthy Startup That Andy Rubin Is *Not* Joining, Has Raised $11.5M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator". Fortune. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  5. ^ "The man who created Android is raising $300 million for his mysterious new project". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 March 2016.