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Good suggestions. Haven't we all had enough of Molyneux, though? Plus, who out there is starting a game company? Nobody. Maybe Nolan Bushnell would be inter
by zach 19y ago
Good suggestions. Haven't we all had enough of Molyneux, though? Plus, who out there is starting a game company? Nobody. Maybe Nolan Bushnell would be interesting, though.
I have a few suggestions of my own:
- Jeremy Wertheimer (ITA)
- Justin Frankel (Nullsoft)
- Lars Rasmussen (Where2)
- Jawed Karim (YouTube)
- Wil Shipley (Delicious Monster)
Longshots: Bill Joy, Larry or Sergey, Marc Andreessen, Pierre Omidyar
- corentin 19y ago"Plus, who out there is starting a game company?" The target audience for "Founders at work" is not just news.YC ;)
- zach 19y agoSure, but like I said on my blog, if even Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin started Flektor instead of a game company, is there a whole lot of opportunity out there for anyone else? http://www.zachbaker.com/articles/2007/05/19/congrats-to-flektor http://www.zachbaker.com/articles/2007/05/19/congrats-to-flektor That was also around the time last year at E3 where Warren Spector gave his advice to those who wanted to start the next big studio: "You have a zero percent chance of success. The barrier to entry in terms of cost, quality required, access to a market... forget it."
- bootload 19y ago'... Haven't we all had enough of Molyneux ...' I think Carmack, Broussard, Molyneux represent the leading edge of software in the PC era (and beyond for Carmack). Molyneux is a good study. Created 2 startups in a difficult industry, shipped product. Nolan Bushnell is definitely a good one. He's still at it with 'uWink'. There's a pattern here. These guys are serial entrepreneurs of technology.