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Businessman Harold "Matt" Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Elliot and Ruth Handler founded Mattel as Mattel Creations in January 1945 in a garage in Los Angeles. [15] [16] The company name chosen is a portmanteau of the surname of Matson and first name of Elliot, with former chairman and CEO Bob Eckert revealing at a 2013 Christmas Day Peninsula Seniors lecture that the founders ...
Once the Intellivision project became successful, software development was brought in-house. Mattel formed its own software development group and began hiring programmers. The original five members of that Intellivision team were Mike Minkoff, Rick Levine, John Sohl, Don Daglow, and manager Gabriel Baum. Levine and Minkoff, a long-time Mattel ...
John Pierrakos was born in a small town, Neon Oitylon, in Greece.In 1939, due to World War II, he left Greece for the United States. Pierrakos received a Doctor of Medicine from University of the State of New York in 1947, worked as a Junior Staff Psychiatrist at Kings County Psychiatric Hospital in Brooklyn, NY until 1949, where he earned his Ph.D. in psychiatry.
A Barbie doll, part of the Olympic Barbie collection from Mattel, is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 21, 2020.
Entrepreneur and investor Daymond John is partnering with Mattel to help discover and invest in some of the best of the worst startup ideas -- ever. From now until December 20, ...
Mattel sold both Mattel Interactive and The Learning Company in 2000 at a loss to Gores Technology Group. The total financial losses to Mattel have been estimated to be as high as $3.6 billion. [6] Mattel's acquisition of The Learning Company has been referred to as "one of the worst acquisitions of all time" by several prominent business journals.
Quicksilver Software, Inc. was founded on May 1, 1984, by three former Mattel Electronics programmers: Bill Fisher, Stephen Roney, and Mike Breen. [1] The company specializes in the creation of strategy, simulation, and educational products, and on focused high-technology R&D projects.
John P. Donoghue was born in 1949 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Boston University in 1971, a master's degree in anatomy from the University of Vermont in 1976, and a PhD from Brown University in 1979. [4] Donoghue's doctoral dissertation was entitled Thalamic projections to the somatic sensory-motor ...