Silicon Valley Ignores Government Moves: Bushnell

Of the washington of 2013, or were you just oblivious to them?

We were oblivious to them in the early days.

We were not on anybody's radar screen.

Government was not our concern at all.

There is a great piece in bloomberg view today saying that steve jobs would not have cared about the shutdown.

Where you have the real entrepreneurs and creators in silicon valley, they could care less what is happening in washington.

Is that true?

Absolutely.

In fact, when we got something from the government, we would throw it away and say, if they were serious, they would come to see us.

Now we have this issue of spying and national security.

You always want to have a balance of what we do ourselves and what the government wants you to do.

Did they ever call you up for a photo op?

We need you here to look -- to make our politicians look cool.

It was more around when it was chuck e. cheese.

They wanted the kid vote.

I have been many to -- i have been to many chuck e. cheeses, it is a favorite for many kids.

Yes, and it can be painful for the parents.

What is painful is the shutdown and the ongoing debt ceiling, extending the dead line.

Time to look at our twitter question.

What would happen if we did not raise the debt ceiling?

Here are a couple of sponsors.

-- responses.

I wonder if that is what lloyd blankfein told president obama yesterday.

It is a huge unknown for business, the economy, and everyone.

Politicians are still focused on health care right now.

We just got through this financial crisis.

I wonder if we are not trying to create another one.

My agenda today, the twitter ipo could come any day.

Expected to make their filing any day this week.

This is a first look into their financials.

Investors are looking out for a few metrics, including revenue per user.

How much can they squeeze out of their hundreds of millions of users?

Nolan bushnell, is twitter the next new innovation in silicon valley?

I love twitter, but i always believe these companies who are darlings really get way ahead of their actual economic value.

I am kind of an old-fashioned guy that says you have to earn money sometimes, and a lot of it, -- do not overcommit and under deliver.

What would be your advice to the young man who can write code, has the world on a string, but has not made it done yet?

If you can go public and cash in, do it.

Sell it and go to the south of france.

And open a truck -- chuck e. cheese.

If you are an individual, start something small, rotate every day, and try not to follow.

Social media is all left-handed people with dogs.

I think that is just stupid.

" finding the next eu jobs" is his book.

Thank you.

"in the loop" with betty liu is next.