Starwave

Overview

• Industryvideo game industry¹
• HeadquartersSeattle¹

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Starwave was a Seattle, Washington-based software and website company, founded in 1993 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and led by CEO Mike Slade. The company produced original CD-ROM titles, including Muppets Inside, and titles for Clint Eastwood, Sting, and Peter Gabriel. They were the original developers of Castle Infinity, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game for children, but Starwave's most lasting mark was in the area of web content sites. They developed ESPN.com, ABCNEWS.com, Outside Online, and Mr. Showbiz.com among other sites, setting the standard for much of the commercial Internet explosion of the late 1990s. Starwave also developed the first site and publishing system for Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com.²

Corporate structure

Starwave is part of a group headed by The Walt Disney Company. 348 entities, 33 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Paul Allen in 1992.¹

Leadership

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• FounderPaul Allen¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

• The Walt Disney Company

Owners

• The Walt Disney Company

From Wikidata.¹

Timeline

1. 1998Dissolved Dissolved¹
2. 1992Founded Founded¹

Links

• WikipediaStarwave
• WikidataQ3497261