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Bushnell: Executive perks and traditional hours create toxic corporate divides
“I don't think you need to arbitrarily create an us versus them mentality in your company, you know, and one of the things that happens when you're owned by a New York company, they think that your laid back style is that you're not working as hard, and they th…”
Nolan Bushnell Mar 26, 2018 ▶ 32:42 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell (2017)
Assertion Supported
Warner Communications fired Bushnell after ugly culture clashes at Atari
“There was this clash of cultures that got to be really ugly, and ultimately they got tired of me, and I got tired of them, and I was fired.”
Nolan Bushnell Feb 27, 2017 ▶ 32:37 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
Assertion Partly supported
Bushnell bought Chuck E. Cheese from Warner for $500,000 over five years
“And that was all the technology and the one open store. The one open store was cash flowing half a million dollars a year. And they let me pay it a 100,000 a year for five years.”
Nolan Bushnell Mar 26, 2018 ▶ 38:21 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell (2017)
Assertion Partly supported
Atari sold $1,500 arcade machines that earned $30,000 to $50,000 lifetime
“Before I sold to Warner, we were selling games. These were coin-operated games, remember? We were selling them for about 1500 dollars. During their lifetime, in CoinDrop, they'd earned 30 to 50,000 dollars.”
Nolan Bushnell Feb 27, 2017 ▶ 34:04 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
Assertion Supported
Bushnell: Warner Communications acquired Atari for $28 million in 1976
“Twenty-eight million bucks.”
Nolan Bushnell Feb 27, 2017 ▶ 31:10 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
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