Subj : Jack Tramiel
To   : Dave Drum
From : Simon Geddes
Date : Fri Jan 31 2020 12:35 pm

  Re: Jack Tramiel
  By: Dave Drum to Tristan Miller on Fri Jan 31 2020 12:24 pm

 > Jack, who dumped CBM in favour of Atari (nee Tramiel Technology Ltd.)
 > was just as much about money as Irving (Gould) and Medhi (Ali) who came
 > after him at Commodore and busted it out for fun and (especially) profit.

I don't think he was really dumped. Irving sacked him. Not sure how that's possible, and what the actual reasons were. Some say because he wanted to bring his sons in. Irving said he was worried about JAck's health, and didn't think he was the man to take the company to beyond a billion.

Maybe Jack planned to build Atari up to the point where he could buy our Commodore and get his creation back. Something akin to the Steve Jobs story, where he was ousted but found a back route back in.

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