Robert Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's broken because people have put too much money into the machine.
It's too good.
It's too good.
Yes.
You know, Nolan Bushnell and his colleagues have built a machine that people just cannot help themselves but put money into.
We're going to need a bigger coin box.
We're going to need a bigger box.
It's a new thing, and it's super fun.
Now he's got a scale.
Very classic startup problem.
You have a thing.
People want it.
But remember, he essentially stole the idea from Magnavox.
By the way, lawsuit, they settle out of court, whatever.
Lots of people now, you know, it's Silicon Valley.
People are coming by Andy Capp's tavern who are engineers who are like, we can do this.
And so he's got to get video games out into the world fast.
Going to need money.
Yeah.
He's going to need money.