Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

We were the only company that had all young executives.

And I've often thought that I basically paved the way for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, some of those guys.

Because all of a sudden people said, well, hey, maybe this works.

Hello and welcome to Tales of Silicon Valley. First of all, let me thank you all for listening,

for reviewing, for recommending to passing the word to your friends. It's been great. It's made

all the work and time and effort gone into the show really worth it. And this is a bonus episode.

And it features a full-length interview with Nolan Bushnell,

the founder of Atari, the godfather of the video gaming industry.

And if you like it, you can hear much, much more on my sister show, Danny in the Valley.

But for now, I give you Nolan Bushnell. Enjoy.

First of all, thank you.

My pleasure. Can we start at the beginning?

At the very beginning, I was born.

I was a Mormon boy in Utah, and a magic thing happened to me at Mrs. Cook's third grade class.

She assigned one student to present an experiment in science to the rest of the class. And I got the one on electricity. And I put the dry cells

together and wound wire around a nail and turned it into electromagnet and did switches and

turned on lights and things like that, and I was hooked.

I went home that day and set up a card table in the corner of my bedroom,

found every old flashlight, battery, light, piece of wire in the house,

and started to tinker and never stopped.

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