The video above captures some of the spirit and personal style of a lesser-known but behind the scenes very influential entrepreneur in the hotbed of entrepreneurship. Better yet. listen to this interview with Nolan Bushnell to appreciate more fully what the early days of Silicon Valley were like, from one of Steve Jobs’s confidants:

Nolan is considered one of the pioneers of the video game industry. Nolan developed the first coin operated game (Computer Space), as well as Atari’s popular debut game, Pong.  Nolan also founded Chuck E. Cheese’s, a game centric restaurant chain.   He is the author of Finding the Next Steve Jobs.  He and his partner Al Alcorn gave Steve his first job at Atari before Steve started Apple Inc. in 1976.

Nolan speaks with Jessica about how he launched Atari, from scratch.