Robert Smith
speaker
1,476 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Jul
Robert Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'd been 10 years older.
Everybody smoked weed.
Yeah.
There was a hot tub.
There was a pool party where everybody ended up naked in the pool.
Bushnell himself looked back on it later and said, if that isn't a horror show for any HR person today, I don't know what is.
But it was the 70s?
It was a weirdo startup.
I'm guessing they didn't have an HR department.
I don't know.
This is a company that's making games, right?
And so you need engineering brains, but you also need a sense of play, of fun, of freedom, right?
And clearly Bushnell was deliberately trying to create that.
You know, he had this culture that was free and creative.
His office door was always open.
And right next to that open door was a keg of beer, right?
So Atari is doing well.
You know, Pong is a huge hit.
But Bushnell knows the big opportunity, the hockey stick, will be if they can make a home video game, you know, like Magnavox was trying to do, but that nobody has cracked yet.
Okay, that's the end of the ads.
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