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

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