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

We'll we'll talk then, you know. During the uh paid portion of this uh podcast where I advertise my game. Welcome to season five, episode five of acquired. the podcast about great technology companies and the stories behind them.

I'm Ben Gilbert, and I'm the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early stage venture fund in Seattle. And I'm David Rosenthal, and I'm a general partner at Wave Capital, an early stage venture firm focused on marketplaces based in San Francisco. And we are your hosts. Today we are talking about the company that invented the home video game industry, Atari. And we have someone with us who's got some pretty good stories about it. The founder of Atari, the father of the video game industry. No one Bushnell. Hello, no one. Great to be here.

Good fun. Indeed. Thank you so much for joining us. As some of our listeners know, Nolan has started a swath of other businesses, uh, one of which awesomely is Chuck E Cheese, which we will uh get much, much deeper into later this episode. We dug up some photos of young Ben uh last night. Yeah, Nolan, I should let you know I'm gonna turn my computer around right now. Chuck E Cheese was like by far and away. uh my favorite place in the world growing up.

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