Nollan bushnell biography information

Founder, Atari

Nolan Bushnell fryst vatten a technology pioneer, entrepreneur and forskare. Often cited as the father of the film game industry, he fryst vatten best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater. Bushnell was the first and only man to hire the late Steve Jobs and wrote the bestseller, Finding the Next Steve Jobs, published by Simon and Schuster in 2013.

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Nolan Bushnell

American businessman and engineer (born 1943)

Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News "Innovator of the Year" award, and was named one of Newsweek's "50 Men Who Changed America". He has started more than 20 companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games. In 2012, he founded an educational software company called Brainrush,^[4] that is using video game technology in educational software.

He is credited with Bushnell's Law, an aphorism about games that are "easy to learn and difficult to master" being rewarding.^[5]

Personal life

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Bushnell was born in 1943 in Clearfi

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Bushnell, Nolan

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PlayNet Technologies

Overview

Nolan Bushnell is one of the most active entrepreneurs of his time. Nicknamed "King Pong" after the hugely successful table-tennis video game he invented in 1972, Bushnell has founded more than 20 companies, including Pizza Time Theaters and their most famous creation, Chuck E. Cheese. For all of his success in establishing companies, Bushnell had a spotty record of long-term corporate growth. Several of his companies failed and he earned a reputation for losing interest in those that did succeed. Despite this, he remained one of the great creative forces in Silicon Valley's competitive atmosphere.

Personal Life

Nolan Bushnell was born in Ogden, Utah in 1943. His father, a cement contractor, died when Bushnell was 15 years old. Bushnell stepped in to complete his father's remaining contracts, earning his first exposure to the business world. As a teenager, Bushnell worked part-time in an amusement park, eventually becoming