# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doug-carlston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:37:45.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doug-carlston"
name: "Doug Carlston"
slug: "doug-carlston"
description: "Douglas Gene Carlston is the founder and CEO of Tawala Systems based in San Rafael, California. He was previously CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Broderbund Software, a software publishing firm that produced Lode Runner, The Print Shop, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Prince of Persia, and Myst. Broderbund was acquired in 1998 by The Learning Company for $420 million, and the combined company was sold to Mattel for $3.6 billion."
tagline: "American chief executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doug_Carlston_(1986).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1947-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.92
  momentum:             3.370786516853931
  historical:           5.947841333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougcarlston/"
    handle:    "dougcarlston"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4874795/"
    handle:    "nm4874795"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3"
    title: "Карлстон, Дуг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "دوج كارلستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Carlston"
    title: "Doug Carlston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Carlston"
    title: "Doug Carlston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Carlston"
    title: "Doug Carlston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Carlston"
    title: "Doug Carlston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3714587"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2132839"
    title: "Doug Carlston"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump