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.
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 ;)
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."
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