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

Oct 15, 2019

01:39:34

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Playing Space War

02:26

The Most Successful Pizza in the Bay Area

01:30

How Did You Meet Don Yost?

01:37

Introduction

2min

Become an Acquired Limited Partner Today!

2min

Zoom Info Go-to-Market Playbook

3min

The Good Eggs of D-Link Pay for Hours

4min

How Did You Get Into the Car Carnival Business?

2min

College Student Business - The Campus Company

6min

Was It a Gap Year?

2min

Was Ed Catmull at the University of Utah at the Same Time?

1min

You Played Space War Back at Utah, Right?

2min

10.

Space War - The First Computer Game Ever Built?

2min

11.

Playing Space War

2min

12.

Atari 2600 - What Is It All About?

2min

13.

Silicon Valley - You Were the First Hacker Type Entrepreneur?

2min

14.

Al Alcorn and Steve Bristow

5min

15.

The Magnavox - Atari's First Game?

3min

16.

Atari - The Best Name in the World?

2min

17.

Paddles From Pong

2min

18.

Bally Midway Rejects the Wire Rig.

2min

19.

Do You Charge the Bars Up Front?

2min

20.

Key Games - What Do You Want?

2min

21.

How Did You Capitalize Your Company?

4min

22.

How Did You Meet Don Yost?

2min

23.

Sequoia Capital

3min

24.

Atari - What a Story for the First Investment

4min

25.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Tari

5min

26.

What's the Deal With WaaS?

2min

27.

Sequoia Investing in the Second Half of the 20th Century

4min

28.

Atari 2600 2600 - What's the Deal?

4min

29.

The Most Successful Pizza in the Bay Area

1min

30.

The Carney Wheels Are Turning

4min

31.

The Sailboat Race - The America's Cup

5min

32.

What Do You Think Is the Middle?

1min

33.

What Happened to ETAC?

3min

34.

We're Not a Nurse Against Themselves

4min

35.

The Most Popular Emerging Podcast Category Is True Crime

2min

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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