The True Entrepreneur Is A Doer

Everybody Believes In Innovation Until They See It. Then They Think, 'oh, No; That'll Never Work. It's Too Different.'

If You Don't Hire At Least One Or Two People That Are Smarter Than You Are, Then You're A Terrible Manager And I Don't Need You.

One Of The Big Concerns I Have Is That Most Of The Hr Departments In A Lot Of Companies Are Hiring Away From Creativity And They Don't Know It. For Instance, They Are Requiring Everybody To Have A College Degree. The Most Creative People I Know Couldn't Deal With College.

Atari Always Was A Technology-driven Company, And We Were Very Keen On Keeping The Technological Edge On Everything. There's A Whole Bunch Of Things That We Innovated. We Made The First Computer That Did Stamps Or Sprites, We Did Screen-mapping For The Very First Time, And A Lot Of Stuff Like That. We Had Some Of The Most Sophisticated Sound-creating Systems, And Were Instrumental In Midi.

I Founded Atari In My Garage In Santa Clara While At Stanford. When I Was In School, I Took A Lot Of Business Classes. I Was Really Fascinated By Economics. You End Up Having To Be A Marketeer, Finance Maven And A Little Bit Of A Technologist In Order To Get A Business Going.