Transcript
Introduction
"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 9:00 p.m., I looked up and noticed that my former Atari employee, Steve Jobs, was at the door. I smiled, and Steve rolled his eyes. I think he was a little taken aback at the size of the place. While I was going through a grandiose period, Steve was the same as ever, not really a grand kind of guy. I asked how long he'd be in town, and he said a few days. 'Let's have breakfast tomorrow then,' I offered, and he agreed. At this time, his new company, Apple, was already quite successful, probably doing a little less than $100 million in sales, but nothing close to what Atari or Chuck E. Cheese was earning.