[HN Gopher] Razer Co-Founder and Gaming Mouse Inventor Robert Kr...
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       Razer Co-Founder and Gaming Mouse Inventor Robert Krakoff Has
       Passed Away
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2022-05-01 17:20 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (vervetimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (vervetimes.com)
        
       | SigmundA wrote:
       | >Robert "Razerguy" Krakoff, the co-founder and former president
       | of gaming hardware company Razer, passed away last week at the
       | age of 81.
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       | >In 1999, Krakoff was behind the first-ever gaming mouse: the
       | Razer Boomslang.
       | 
       | He was 58 when founding a company for gaming peripherals, pretty
       | cool IMO. Always make me feel better to see other accomplish
       | successful and fun things later in life and maybe I am not over
       | the hill in tech in my mid forties, never too late etc.
        
         | QuikAccount wrote:
         | LTT recently did a video revisiting the Razor Boomslang
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUw5tR0BdEc
        
         | pan69 wrote:
         | The video on that page says its from 2002. So, in that video he
         | was 61!
         | 
         | Its never too late.
        
           | mothsonasloth wrote:
           | For a 61 year old in that video, he looks great
        
       | fuckcensorship wrote:
       | I found the included case study [1] about a marketing agency
       | designing Razer's branding and first mouse particularly
       | interesting.
       | 
       | [1]: http://toddpr.com/articles/ProductPR.pdf
        
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