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Rahul Sood
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Rahul Sood

Rahul Sood was the founder of VoodooPC (est 1991), and became the outgoing Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Hewlett Packard Global Voodoo Business Unit. In 2007 Business 2.0 magazine had claimed Sood to be 83rd out of 101 persons on their "Who matters now?" list.Sood has led the development of technologies such as quiet PC technology, liquid cooling and active liquid chilling and was the first to bring them to market in the high-performance computer gaming industry. He has also developed UnikoinGold, an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency token for Esports betting at Unikrn.Rahul Sood announced his resignation from HP in November 2010. In December 2010 he announced that he had joined Microsoft as the GM for System Experience in the Interactive Entertainment Business. He then started the first incubation fund for Startups at Microsoft, the Bing Fund. This eventually became Microsoft Ventures which Sood led up until November 2014 when he announced he was leaving Microsoft to startup Unikrn, an eSports betting service.

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