Nolan Bushnell | The Atari Founder, Steve Job’s First Boss, and the former Owner of Chuck E. Cheese

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneur, Thrivetime, Businessschool, Smallbusiness, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Nolan Bushnell shares why uninformed decisions are toxic, why you always have to be a little paranoid to be a successful entrepreneur, how he founded Atari, why Steve Jobs was the hardest working employee on the planet, how he scaled Chuck E. Cheese, why you must work to learn and not to just earn and what it was like being Steve Jobs’ first boss.

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0:00.0	Andrew, occasionally we have a show where we feature a guest. It's so big, so huge.
0:05.6	So big. That we have to shamelessly use the echo effect.
0:08.4	And so on today's show, we're interviewing Nolan Bushnell.
0:13.0	Now who's Nolan Bushnell?
0:15.0	Noone Bushnell was Steve Jobs first boss.
0:18.0	You know the guy who started Apple?
0:19.0	That guy?
0:20.0	This was Steve Jobs first boss.
0:22.0	Whoa. This guy's the founder of Atari.
0:25.0	You know, like the godfather of video gaming?
0:28.0	This guy's the former owner who scaled and grew Chuck E. Cheese.
0:33.4	The Chuck E Cheese?
0:34.6	Yes, and on today's show he shares why uninformed decisions are toxic.
0:38.8	Why you always have to be a little bit paranoid to be a successful entrepreneur, how he founded the video game industry, why
0:46.0	Steve Jobs was the hardest working employee on the planet, and how he went from repairing
0:50.5	TVs to starting Atari to growing Chuck E.
0:53.0	And why you must work to learn and not just to earn if you want to become
0:58.0	super successful.
0:59.0	All this and more on today's edition of The Thrive Time
1:01.0	for showing your radio and podcast download.
1:04.8	Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show.
1:07.2	We started from the bottom now we get.
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