Jason Rubin

Nintendo had Mario and Sega had Sonic, but Sony's PlayStation was lacking such a presence in its early existence.

Enter Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin.

Childhood friends, this duo got their foot in the video game industry door by establishing Jam Software, a development company which they would later rename Naughty Dog.

Their fighting game, Way of the Warrior, caught the attention of Universal execs, leading to a generous contract to produce more titles.

Funny in this chat or in this post, he asked Grok, were the game's founders Jewish? Yes.

Naughty Dog founders Andy Garvin and Jason Rubin met his kids in Hebrew school and are Jewish.

The lousy goyim line is real, but from Crash Mind Over Mutant.

Which, I don't know, whatever.

I agree with everything.

When I interviewed Jason Rubin and he said that they had tried to do like a side pack and his quote was something the effect of you never forget the wire is there.

That's the problem with the side pack.

We're moving to an age where everyone's going to be trying out the side pack in order to take weight off of.

Oh, wow.

So it was me with my friends, Ed Gavin and Jason Rubin, building Naughty Dog Software, a computer game company.

It was such a great education to do that at a young age, where we were writing software that shipped on Sega Genesis and so on, but doing it basically the three of us with electronic arts as our studio.

And I think I fell in love with startups in that moment.