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Published · transcript-backedNolan Bushnell: evaluation
15 Oct 2019 Acquired Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
“Actually, the business model, I'm more proud of than the technology because I built this company, my partner and I put in $250 each, that's the only capital that went into the company until Don Valentine in 1975.”
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- Speaker
- Nolan Bushnell
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 15 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
Transcript context
…How did you capitalize that or did you manage to get pre-orders and have a nice working capital cycle? Actually, the business model, I'm more proud of than the technology because I built this company, my partner and I put in $250 each, that's the only capital that went into the company until Don Valentine in 1975. What we did, I figured out just-in-time inventory. All the cost was in the cabinet, the TV set, the coin mech, and the power transformer. The glue parts for the computer and all that, it was a lot of numbers, but not a lot of [...] and value. They were 15 cents then.…
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