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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

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The History of a Company Built on DARPA Money and Flight Simulators

The professors received DARPA money to start a company that built commercial flight simulators in the late 1970s-early 1980s/nFlight simulators required advanced graphics that were not available on desktops at the time/nThey developed proprietary silicon and ultimately entered the supercomputer business in the 1980s and console business in the 1990s/nFormer employees of the professors had a big impact in the games community

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