About this episode

Chris Ashton discusses his journey from game development to founding Ruffian Cars.

Chris Ashton is the founder of Ruffian Cars, one of the freshest and most innovative custom car shops in the country. What you may not know is he also co-founded the game development studio that worked on Counter-Strike and built the legendary Left 4 Dead. Thirty years building worlds you can't touch, and then he decided to build ones you could.

Topics covered

• custom cars
• game development
• innovation
• automotive industry
• entrepreneurship

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