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Season 5, Episode 5: Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal 1h 42m 79 months ago

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

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Show Notes

We’re joined by the legendary Nolan Bushnell, founder not only of Atari, but also the only person ever to hire Steve Jobs, the recipient of Sequoia Capital’s first-ever investment, and the creator of Chuck E. Cheese, the canonical GPS navigation arrow, and a little project that would go on to become Pixar. We cover it all in this special episode!

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Links:Spacewar!, the first video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

The meaning of Atari: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atari