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Published · transcript-backedNolan Bushnell: belief
15 Oct 2019 Acquired Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
“When he got sick, I think the record guys didn't in a very significant way and that's where it came off the rails.”
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- Speaker
- Nolan Bushnell
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
Transcript context
…Yeah. Our next segment that we typically do is acquisition category. There's very clear-cut in easy episodes where the company bought it either it was a people acquisition, technology, product, business line, it was for an asset. In this case, I think what's coming out is Warner didn't really know why they bought it and then that led to some of the falling apart later. How would you characterize why they bought the company and what it was for? I've often thought that Steve Ross, who was suffering from prostate cancer, a brilliant one, had a very clear idea of what Atari was. When he got sick, I think the record guys didn't in a very significant way and that's where it came off the rails. Normally here, after category, we would go into grading. Nolan, we will take your color on everything so far, both on Warner buying Atari and you buying Chuck E. Cheese back from Atari and growing that into what it was. We will take your color there as our grades and finish up here. Nolan, thank you so much.…
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