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

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

FromAcquired


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

FromAcquired

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Length:
100 minutes
Released:
Oct 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! https://glow.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile)   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!   Links: Spacewar!, the first video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!  The meaning of Atari: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atari Nolan’s current project, St. Noire: https://www.amazon.com/St-Noire-Hosted-Cinematic-Exclusive/dp/B07P693BG1   Sponsor: Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for sponsoring all of Acquired Season 5. You can get in touch with Al Guerrero, who you heard at the beginning of this podcast, here: https://bit.ly/2AjQZtJ and read his Medium posts on eSports here: https://medium.com/@alguerrero1111/why-venture-capital-is-flooding-into-esports-teams-ba179d9fc428 and mobile gaming here https://medium.com/@alguerrero1111/mobile-gaming-founders-blazing-new-trails-3ac12be54e36 
Released:
Oct 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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