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Nolan Bushnell’s Chuck E. Cheese, Silicon Valley Startup: The Origins of the Best Pizza Chain Ever – The Atlantic

This great American franchise, and by extension, childhood itself, almost never existed.

You may not know this, but Chuck E. Cheese’s — yes, the pizza place — has its origins as firmly planted in the soil of Silicon Valley as Apple, HP, or Intel. In fact, it sprang from Nolan Bushnell’s Atari like Athena to the videogame company’s Zeus.

The creator of Atari has launched a new VR company called Modal VR

By Jonathan Shieber for TechCrunch So Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, is launching a new virtual reality company called Modal VR, along with Jason Crawford (who invented the Modal tech and serves as the company’s chief executive) and that’s super cool. But (more importantly to me) I played human Pong in virtual reality …

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BrainRush: It Doesn’t Rush Your Brain At All

BrainRush is out to turn you into IBM’s Watson. Like other companies grabbing for the big brass ring that is tech-based education tools, BrainRush wants to “revolutionize learning.” But unlike many of its competitors, Brainrush is determined to make it fun. They’ll tuck the knowledge you need inside a thousand interactive playthings like so many Greeks inside a wooden horse.

Here’s The Advice The Atari Founder Gave To A Young Steve Jobs – Nolan Bushnell in Inc.

Holding on to your convictions in the face of mediocrity can help turn the naysayers into believers. Naysaying has always been an epidemic of sorts. The majority of people, if asked to vote, would vote on mediocrity. You might wonder why someone would freely choose mediocrity. The simple answer is this: they can’t see far …

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The Man Who First Hired Steve Jobs on Finding Unusual and Creative Talent

By Andy Meek for Fast Company Video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell has handpicked rising tech talent from atypical places. He’s also responsible for hiring young Steve Jobs. One of the hallmarks of Nolan Bushnell’s career is that he’s spent decades hiring and enabling all manner of gifted renegades and imaginative oddballs. It was partly of out …

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Nolan Bushnell: Games Today Have ‘Gratuitous Complexity’

  By Gina Gotthlif, Mashable Nolan Bushnell is often referred to as the father of electronic gaming — he created Atari, after all — but the serial entrepreneur has brought joy to the lives of many, beyond geeks. After founding Chuck E. Cheese’s, the entertainment restaurant chain, Bushnell founded and advised an impressive number of tech …

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