Primary Job Title CEO & Co-Founder Primary Organization ThunderCore
Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
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Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack for
programming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.
