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Robert Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1160 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

And the receptionist calls the head engineer and she goes, yeah, we got a hippie kid in the lobby.

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

Says he won't leave until we hire him.

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

Should we call the cops or let him in?

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

It's so delightful.

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

And perfectly, Steve Jobs is very good at his job.

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 very unpleasant to work with.

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

Classic.

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

Completely unsurprising.

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

He tells Bushnell that, like, everybody's soldering wrong, right?

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

They're actually putting together the hardware, soldering the hardware.

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

He's probably right.

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

And Bushnell's like, yeah, he was right.

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

Yeah.

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

He keeps calling his manager a dumb shit.

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

Probably was.

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

Not kind.

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

Yeah.

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

Not necessary.

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

Bushnell winds up putting Jobs on the night shift, partly so he won't bother so many people, and partly because he knew that Jobs liked to hang out at night with his buddy.