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Atari Founder and Tech Guru Nolan Bushnell on Passion and Play

November 6, 2013 by briangruber No Comments

BushnellI attended Dan Pulcrano’s extraordinary C2SV conference recently and we are working to get videos of the events online after a period of post-production. There were many great speakers and highlights but the apocryphal moment was surely when Dan got Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell up on stage together for the first time. They waxed eloquently on a wide range of subjects. We will post the videos when they become available.

After the session, I talked to Nolan and asked him what are the most important factors in creating an environment for the achievement of audacious visions. He answered: “…intensity and passion. If you had to come down to one single idea, that is it. I also really believe that playfulness…I think people who take themselves too seriously tend to self-edit too much. If you are kind of willing to be out there a little bit, crazy, that’s a characteristic.”

A story on the event from San Jose, Mercury News here http://www.mercurynews.com/sal-pizarro/ci_24193146/pizarro-fun-times-woz-nolan-bushnell-at-c2sv

And my video moment with Nolan:
 

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