Robert Smith
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SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
And so, you know, what do you do in Silicon Valley if you make something and it's a failure?
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
You start your own company.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Exactly right.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
And they call it, of course...
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Syzygy.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Something like that.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
I think so.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
I think so.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Clearly a bad name.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Hard to say.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Hard to spell.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
And kind of a lucky break for Nolan Bushnell.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
It's already taken by a candle maker up in Mendocino.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
So they go with another name.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
I have played Go.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
It's okay.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
Really?
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
It's okay.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
So now they have a company and a name.