Skillz founder and CEO Andrew Paradise of blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer, joining Skillz’s board, making his company public and entering into a partnership with the NFL.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, scoffed at the culture agreed on Saturday, tweeting about a “new game” called “Woketopia”.
“Battle for high morale in this new game!” He wrote.
It is unclear what motivated the tweet, but Musk faced criticism over his questioning of the COVID-19 vaccine this weekend and recently released documents showing that Tesla’s plant in Fremont, California, saw hundreds of cases of coronavirus after he reopened it in defiance of a local shutdown order.
In this archive photo from December 1, 2020, SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin. Tesla claims it has invested more than $ 1 billion in Bitcoin and will accept digital currency as a form of payment
TESLA’S FREMONT FACTORY SEEN MORE THAN 400 COVID-19 CASES BETWEEN MAY, DECEMBER: NEW DOCUMENTS
He is also facing a lawsuit from a Tesla investor who alleges that Musk’s “erratic tweets” are violating his fiduciary duty as CEO.
The “Woketopia” proposal drew mixed reactions from some in the tech crowd.
“In fact, it would be an interesting game to design,” wrote computer scientist Paul Graham.
But game designer Tyler Glaiel replied mockingly, “ok boomer”.
The term has been used mockingly by conservatives to describe an “awakened utopia” that, according to them, liberals are trying to establish by canceling culture.
Florida Deputy Matt Gaetz suggested that Seattle, with its “exhausted” police department and frequent Antifa demonstrations, already fits the description.
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Musk gave credit to computer games for introducing himself and other leading software engineers to computer programming during a lecture in 2019 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles – the world’s leading gaming convention.
“I think video games are a very powerful force in getting kids interested in technology,” he said at the time.
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In 1984, at the age of 12, one of his first entrepreneurial ventures was to code a video game called “Blastar”, which he sold for $ 500 to PC and Office Technology magazine. You can play a version of it here.