"Everyone was involved in everything that we were doing."
"Back then, the organization was so much smaller," Pearce says. "He’s the one who recruited Frank and I to even think about doing any of this."Īll three of these founding members went on to be crucial parts of Blizzard’s early years, as the company searched for firm footing. "Allen is the genesis of Blizzard," Morhaime adds. Back then, they called it Silicon & Synapse.įrank Pearce makes explicit what Adham’s story suggests: "Allen is the founder of Blizzard, not a founder."
The company that would become Blizzard came into existence the day that Adham graduated from UCLA. "They were crazy enough to think it was a good idea," Adham says. As they neared graduation, he went to them with his pitch, and they bought it. So I had this idea that if I could talk five or six of them into starting something instead of getting hired off piecemeal to the Microsofts and IBMs, that we might be able to do something fun and different."Īt the top of Adham’s list of recruits was a duo he had identified as two of the best engineers in his class: Mike Morhaime and Frank Pearce. You knew who the really smart engineers were. "It was at least 300 in computer science, and probably double that if you counted electrical engineering. "The engineering department in UCLA was large," Adham says.
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