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Founders: #36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent

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What I learned from reading Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent by Nolan Bushnell. --- A pong is a piece of advice designed to help enhance creativity. It applies to only where the advice is helpful. Unlike a rule which thinks itself applicable to every situation. (4:36) Cherish the pink-haired. (16:53) Hire the obnoxious: Steve Jobs believed he was always right and was willing to push harder and longer than other people who might have had equally good ideas but caved under pressure. (19:07) Expect to be criticized. Everyone said Atari was nuts. When I explained Chuck E Cheese they laughed. "The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad." President of Michigan Savings Bank, advising Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in Ford Motor Company, 1903 (20:23) One of the best ways to find creative people is to ask a simple question: What books do you like? (24:15) When your company establishes that anyone can and should contribute, you will end up hearing some very good suggestions coming from unlikely places. (26:03) I strongly believe that everyone who wants to be creative must find a place where their mind can be alone and untouche

[00:00:00] In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house in Paris. At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement. At the time, my wife and I didn't have any furniture, so we thought, why not fill it up with people instead? We threw a huge party, inviting everyone I knew at Chuck E. Cheese and my other company, Atari, and all my old friends as well. At around 9pm, I looked up and noticed that my former Atari employee, Steve Jobs, was at the door. I smiled…

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