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Peter Barrett is an Australian entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Playground Global, a venture fund and design studio providing resources, mentorship and funding to startups making hardware devices. Prior to Playground, Barrett served as CTO at CloudCar, a cloud-based consumer products startup. He has also held executive positions at Microsoft and WebTV, where he worked with Playground co-founders Andy Rubin and Bruce Leak.

Barrett also co-founded Rocket Science Games, a video game development company, where he helped pioneer CD-ROMs as a video game distribution method.

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1. ^ Snider, Burr. "Rocket Science". WIRED. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
2. Tanz, Jason. "Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI". WIRED. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
3. Lunden, Ingrid (22 June 2012). "CloudCar, The Stealthy Startup That Andy Rubin Is *Not* Joining, Has Raised $11.5M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
4. "Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator". Fortune. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
5. "The man who created Android is raising $300 million for his mysterious new project". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 March 2016.

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