[HN Gopher] Razer Co-Founder and Gaming Mouse Inventor Robert Kr... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | >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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-01 23:00 UTC)