The Next Web has dug up a video of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s keynote presentation at Campus Party Brasil, where he spent time remembering Steve Jobs’ work at Atari as well as talking about segments of his upcoming book „Finding the Next Steve Jobs.“
What is one of the characteristics that made Steve Jobs successful? He was creative, but you know what else was really important? He was a very, very, very hard worker. How many of my employees did I find sleeping under their desks when I came in early on a Monday morning? Not many. Did he kinda smell bad? Yeah. That’s cause we didn’t have showers, and if you didn’t go home for two or three days you could get gamey.
Bushnell goes on to mention that the most important messages he gave Jobs was that if 99 percent of people thought something was crazy, and the one percent that created the idea thought it was cool then the idea’s creator should „pursue it with all vigor.“ This message has been echoed by Apple and Jobs multiple times, including in Apple’s „Here’s to The Crazy One’s“ commercial and „Think Different“ slogan.
He packs his hour-long talk – the Jobs portion starts at the 13:00 minute mark – with additional anecdotes about Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, like how Jobs offered Bushnell a third of Apple for $50,000, which Bushnell passed on.
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Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Steve Jobs at Atari and Finding the Next Jobs [Mac Blog]