Robert Smith

Steve Wozniak, who was a great engineer.

It would be great to have hanging around Atari.

And in fact, Jobs and Wozniak helped to make Breakout, the great Atari game.

Remember Breakout?

Yes, of course.

You're trying to knock down the bricks in a wall.

There's still games like that where you've got a little paddle at the bottom.

It's so good.

So Jobs worked at Atari for a little while and then decided he wanted to go off to India to find his guru.

Perfect.

And asked Atari to pay for the trip.

Nobody ever said he lacked moxie.

And wound up making a deal with Atari where they'd pay him to go part of the way there.

They had exported some games to Germany and there was some kind of problem with the games in Germany.

And they're like, we'll send you to Germany to fix the games and then you can get the rest of the way to India from there.

And that's what happened.

And, you know, the Germans said Jobs was terrible to work with, but he fixed the games.

Yeah.

And, you know, there is something, right?

I was thinking about, like, the link between Atari and Jobs and what did he learn there.