Davidson & Associates

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Davidson & Associates is a software company, famous for creating the Blaster series of educational games. It was started by Bob Davidson and Jan Davidson, who later went on to create the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

Bob Davidson became Chairman and CEO of Davidson and Associates, Inc. in 1989. At that time, the company's revenues were just shy of eight million dollars a year. Jan Davidson continued her role as President focusing her energies on building the product development side of the business, and Bob focused on faster growth for the company. In the next few years, he formed strategic partnerships with Fisher Price, Simon & Schuster, Kaplan, Inc. and made several strategic acquisitions, including Davidson & Associates' most successful acquistion ever, Blizzard Entertainment, whose products Warcraft™, StarCraft™, and Diablo™ became runaway best sellers. In the early 90s, the company was acquired by Cendant and merged with another large educational software company, Knowledge Adventure which is famous with its JumpStart series of educational games.