Robert Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, I'm not.
You can't fire me.
I quit.
It is definitely on Bushnell's kind of cowboy brand, right?
He doesn't need the money.
He made a bunch of money selling Atari.
And interestingly, he has this little side hustle at this point.
a place he started in order to collect all the quarters that people were putting into the Atari arcade games, a place called Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater.
Yeah, he had started it as part of Atari.
And then when Warner bought Atari, they were like, we don't want to own a pizza place.
So he bought it from them for $500,000.
Yeah.
So Bushnell is, you know, riding off into the sunset on an animatronic rat.
Singing rat.
Yeah.
He's done at Atari.
We're back from the ad break.
Bushnell is out.
And Kazar, the shirt guy, is in at Atari.
And the next thing that happens is really surprising.