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The James Altucher Show

844 - How to find the right innovations in the challenging time with Former President of Nintendo Reggie Fils-Aimé

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What does it takes to take the famous but underperforming (at that time) company, Nintendo, elevate them and create a whole culture following behind them? And how to take a food court brand, Panda Express, and make them a national chain restaurant?In this episode, I was joined by Reggie Fils-Aimé, is an American businessman best known for being the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the North American division of the Japanese video game company Nintendo to talk about his new book, Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo.We explore Reggie's origin story, what makes him take up his role in Nintendo, how he turns Pizza Hut and Panda Express into a national chain, what's his philosophy when he faces any challenges, and more importantly, why does he likes to take up task and roles that are in the most challenging situation!We also talked about how he became the meme man, and gaming community!Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:16.3

What hasn't this guy done?

0:18.1

Reggie, Beast and May.

0:19.9

First off, when I got his book and it was sitting on my table, I always read everybody's

0:24.4

books before they come in my podcast.

0:26.4

My son saw the book and he says, wait, you're going to have Reggie?

0:29.9

He on your podcast and I'm like, yeah, you've heard of him.

0:33.4

He heard of him and he showed me all these videos on YouTube.

0:36.5

Reggie is like, he's literally become a human meme.

0:41.0

He was the CEO of Nintendo for many years.

0:43.8

You played on every one of his, you know, Wii Sports and all the Nintendo products that

0:51.4

he's released.

0:52.4

But before that, he's also was involved in Pizza Hut, Panda Express, VH1.

0:58.2

So he's been in now a lot of industries and there was some very specific things I learned

1:02.7

about him, not only about business but about creativity that sometimes a way to be creative

1:08.6

is to create something that is underwhelming according to the common metrics of success

1:15.9

but is different and unique in other metrics.

1:19.3

You'll see what I mean in the examples.

1:20.8

But we have a great talk and I'm also curious how do you become a human meme?

1:26.0

So here's Reggie Thesonet, author of a great new book, Disrupting the Game.

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