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Nonny de la Peña is Exclusively Represented by CAL Entertainment Nonny de la Peña has been at the forefront of emerging media throughout her career, earning accolades like “Godmother of VR.” Her insatiable curiosity and keen desire to provide innovative experiences to audiences in search of truth brought new techniques and technology to storytelling that

By Ballyhoo Magazine Kenny Aronoff is a CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker Iconic drummer Kenny Aronoff will be a DJ on Sirius XM Rolling Stones Radio Deep Tracks Channel 27 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 11 AM ET honoring Charlie Watts and the Rolling Stones. The show will air throughout the weekend (all times ET):

In the annals of Silicon Valley history, Nolan Bushnell’s name conjures up both brilliant success and spectacular failure. His two landmark achievements were founding Atari in 1972–laying the groundwork for the entire video game industry–and starting Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre in 1977. But there’s another highlight of Bushnell’s bio that has long gone undocumented: pioneer of the high-tech incubator.

In 1981, Bushnell created Catalyst Technologies, a venture-capital partnership designed to bring the future to life by turning his ideas into companies. In the era of the TRS-80, Betamax, and CB radio, startups funded by Catalyst pursued an array of visionary concepts–from interactive TV to online shopping to door-to-door navigation–that created entire industries decades later. “I read science fiction, and I wanted to live there,” Bushnell explains.