Alexey Pajitnov, every mention

The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers Jul 31, 2023 · 38 mentions

• ▶ 3:11 Guy Raz It's the story of how Hank Rogers made Tetris one of the most popular video games of all time, and how he and its original creator, Alexey Pachitnov, came to own it.
• ▶ 21:57 Henk Rogers Yeah, so, uh, Alexey Pajetnov is his name, and, uh, he's a mathematician, uh, working mostly on voice recognition, and he needed to move to a new machine, and, uh, he was assigned to learn how do you program on that new machine, and he… 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:58 Guy Raz And of course, that's where Tetris was invented by Alexei, by Alexei Pajetnov. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:20 Guy Raz A secret shot of vodka to celebrate a deal, and Hank starts a new company with the one guy who hasn't made a dime off Tetris. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 45:17 Guy Raz One of the people in the room is Alexei Pashtinov, the inventor of Tetris. 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 52:02 Guy Raz And Alexei, the inventor of the game, he actually had to make a deal with them, I guess, that in 1995, he would finally get the rights, well, the rights would revert back to him, right? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 53:20 Henk Rogers And which is why Alexei asked me to help him. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:59 Guy Raz So now with them out of the picture, with the Elord guys out of the picture, you own, you and Alexei owned a hundred percent of this company.
• ▶ 1:05:04 Guy Raz By the way, is Alexei still involved with the company? 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:13 Guy Raz And by the way, even though he and Alexei are no longer running it, it is still pretty much in the family.