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Jacob Goldstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
239 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

We can make a shirt in like three hours.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

You just, like, you move him along and he, like, falls into holes.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Falling into holes is a big thing.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

And he makes a, like, err.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

It's interesting, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Like, the thrill of a new invention only lasts so long, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

You know, the very first movie of, you know, people moving around a garden, everybody's like, oh, my God, it's amazing.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

You know, three weeks later, they're like, eh, the plot kind of sucks.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Maybe an explosion or something, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

You know, probably the same with Gutenberg, right?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yeah, that's amazing.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yeah, I read the Bible.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

You got another book for me?

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

It's heartbreaking.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

And so as the incumbent, Atari had more money invested.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

They were further out over their skis when the crash came.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yes.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Yes.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

And... Huge warehouses, employees, engineers, the whole thing.

SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari

Hundreds of thousands of cartridges.