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VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood resigns from Microsoft to start his own company

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Rahul Sood, the high-profile founder of VoodooPC and more recently the general manager of Microsoft Ventures, has resigned to start his own company dubbed Unikrn.

Sood founded VoodooPC as a boutique seller of custom-made gaming computers. The company established itself as an elite brand, and it was able to sell its hand-painted PCs for thousands of dollars. He sold that company to Hewlett-Packard, which then expanded its gamer PC lineup.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.