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Co-founder, Guitar Hero | Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley
Charles Huang is the co-founder of RedOctane and the co-creator of the Guitar Hero video game franchise. Guitar Hero, which launched in 2005, enables users to simulate the experience of being a rock star while playing a guitar-shaped controller. The game captured rave reviews and achieved a record-breaking $1 billion in North American retail sales in just 18 months. RedOctane was acquired by Activision in 2006.
Charles left Guitar Hero in 2010 and co founded Blue Goji, a fitness gamification company turning cardio equipment into a game system. He is currently the co-founder of Indigo 7, a startup focused on brands in fashion apparel and entertainment. He is a founding partner at Mentors Fund and also a Venture Partner at Sinovation Ventures. He is also Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley at the College of Letters & Science.
Charles holds a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley (1993) where he serves as Board Trustee for the Berkeley Foundation.
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley