He technically didn’t. It was originally owned by George Lucas! But it was mostly just the cgi arm of his special effects. Jobs bought it off Lucas and turned it into the Pixar movie studio we think of today. (Jobs is credited as executive producer on the original Toy Story)
Absolutely wild that more than two decades ago, Disney saved Steve Jobs’ litttle tech company called Pixar, which what lead him back to running Apple.
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I didn’t know Steve Jobs started Pixar. TIL
He technically didn’t. It was originally owned by George Lucas! But it was mostly just the cgi arm of his special effects. Jobs bought it off Lucas and turned it into the Pixar movie studio we think of today. (Jobs is credited as executive producer on the original Toy Story)
…damn, Steve Jobs bankrolled a large portion of my childhood and I never even realized.
Did they save Pixar? I thought they just made an offer Jobs couldn’t refuse.