Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work'

Re:Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work' by bootload on Thursday May 24, 2007 @02:12AM (#24249)

Reading Founders at Work and going through the stories I was struck by who was not in the list. Another edition is in the planning by JL. What founders would you suggest for the second edition? Mine would be ...

- Donna Dubinsky, Jeff Hawkins (Ed Colligan) ~ Palm Computing

- CmdrTaco ~ Slashdot

- Larry Ellison ~ Oracle

- Hasso Platner ~ SAP

- David Kelly ~ IDEO

- John Carmack ~ Id Software

- Peter Molyneux ~ Bullfrog, Lionshead

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Re:Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work' by zach on Thursday May 24, 2007 @03:04AM (#24254)

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

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Re:Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work' by bootload on Thursday May 24, 2007 @08:01AM (#24308)

'... 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.

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Re:Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work' by corentin on Thursday May 24, 2007 @06:11AM (#24280)

"Plus, who out there is starting a game company?"

The target audience for "Founders at work" is not just news.YC ;)

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Re:Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work' by zach on Thursday May 24, 2007 @11:43AM (#24361)

Sure, 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

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."

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Re:Suggest founders for new edition of 'Founders at work' by euccastro on Thursday May 24, 2007 @10:30AM (#24348)

As said elsewhere, you can read all about Carmack in Masters of Doom. Besides, I think he'd have technical rather than entrepreneurial advice to give. Still, if he made the cut I'd read his interview voraciously anyway.

I'm not looking forward to Molyneux, though.

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