Nolan Bushnell

American entrepreneur who founded Atari in 1972 — creating the video game industry with Pong — and who hired Steve Jobs (and later Steve Wozniak) as an employee, making Atari the training ground for Apple's founders.

Founded the commercial video game industry with Pong — demonstrating that interactive electronic entertainment could be commercially viable — and created the Atari company culture that exposed Steve Jobs to the combination of technical innovation and consumer experience design.