Joe Britt

Who is Joe Britt?

As Chief Technology Officer, Joe acts as a strategic and tactical guide for the technical and intellectual property aspects of Danger's business. Joe

brings more than 14 years of experience building consumer products to

Danger, and he has been awarded 13 patents as a result of his work. His

specialty is designing system software for consumer electronic devices.

Prior to co-founding Danger, Joe spent over four years at WebTV

Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. As the first

non-founding employee, he was responsible for the architecture and

creation of the system software used in the WebTV set-top boxes. Joe

was involved in the design of every hardware product shipped by WebTV

during his time there. Before WebTV, Joe worked at Catapult

Entertainment. Joe was part of the team that created the Xband Video

Game Network, a system which enabled multi-player gaming over the

Internet. Joe contributed to the system software as well as the

technology required to enable video games for network play. Before

Catapult, Joe worked at the 3DO Company, contributing to the design of

a game console powered by a PowerPC CPU. Joe started his

Silicon Valley career at Apple Computer, working in the RISC (Reduced

Instruction Set Computer) Products Group. Joe was a core member of the

ROM (Read Only Memory) development team for the first generation

PowerPC-based Macintosh. Joe holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.