Peter Barrett's path into venture capital runs through video games, not finance - he co-founded Rocket Science Games in 1993 (where a young Elon Musk worked as an engineer), then WebTV and CloudCar, before co-founding Playground Global in 2015 to back deep-tech founders the way he wished someone had backed him.
1993
Co-founds video game company Rocket Science Games with Bruce Leak and Steve Blank as mentor; the company employs a young Elon Musk as a software engineer.
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Joins WebTV, later acquired by Microsoft, working alongside future Playground co-founders Andy Rubin and Bruce Leak.
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Serves as CTO of CloudCar, a cloud-based consumer products startup.
2015
Co-founds Playground Global with Andy Rubin, Bruce Leak, and Matt Hershenson.
2023
Playground closes Fund III at $410 million, bringing total AUM over $1.2 billion.