Bruce Leak's career traces the earliest days of consumer computing - Apple's System Software team (where he helped invent QuickTime), General Magic, and WebTV - before co-founding Playground Global in 2015 to invest in the kind of deep-tech company he spent decades building.
Education
Stanford University, M.S. Electrical Engineering
Previous Experience
Intern, Microsoft (tested early Word for IBM PC prototype)
Engineer, Apple System Software team (led 32-bit Color QuickDraw, birth of QuickTime)
Engineer, General Magic (recruited by Steve Perlman)
Co-Founder, Rocket Science Games (1993)
Co-Founder, WebTV (acquired by Microsoft)
Career Timeline
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Spends five years at Apple's System Software team, leading development of 32-bit Color QuickDraw, which becomes the foundation of QuickTime.
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Recruited by Steve Perlman to General Magic to build a color gaming platform.
1993
Joins Peter Barrett and Steve Blank to found Rocket Science Games.
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Co-founds WebTV with General Magic alumni Steve Perlman and Phil Goldman; WebTV is later acquired by Microsoft.