Robert K. Garriott (born December 7, 1956
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figure and

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. He co-founded

Origin Systems Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. It was founded on March 3, 1983, by Richard Garriott and his brother Robert. Origin is best known for their groundbreaking work in multiple genres of video games ...

and

Destination Games Destination Games was an American computer game developer, computer game development company created in April 2000 by Richard Garriott, Robert Garriott and Starr Long, following their departure from Origin Systems. ("Destination" is a play on " ...

with his brother,

Richard Garriott Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (''né'' Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer ...

, and was the CEO of

NCsoft NCSoft Corporation (stylized as NC, formerly stylized as NCSOFT; ) is a South Korean video game developer and publisher headquartered in Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea, primarily known for the distribution of massively multiplayer online role-pl ...

-North America from 2001 until 2008. He is the second-eldest son of

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astronaut Owen K. Garriott. Garriott graduated from the

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in 1983 with a

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in Management and also earned degrees in

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from

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, and a

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in Engineering Economic Systems from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. In 1983 he co-founded

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with his younger brother

Richard "Lord British" Garriott Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (''né'' Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer ...

. He was a vice president and later an executive vice president at

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(EA) after the company acquired Origin in 1992. Garriott left EA in 1995 and co-founded

in 2000. Destination was bought by

in 2001 and he became president and CEO of

-North America.

References

American video game businesspeople American technology company founders 1956 births Living people Origin Systems people MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Rice University alumni Stanford University alumni 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople

Robert The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, prais ...

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