applematters.com— It was twenty years ago this month that George Lucas sold Pixar to Stve Jobs. This short story explains why.
Feb 3, 2006View in Crawl 4
it was given up in the heat of passion. two old dudes, captured in a loving embrace .... "yes, yes, you can have my company cheap..." it happens more than you think.why do you think colnel sanders died?
He sold them in a furious chair-throwing rage because they refused to paste a different actor over the original Anakin Skywalker ghost at the end of ROTJ.
I have a love-hate attitude towards Apple as well, except I hate them, and love absolutely nothing from them. My iPod has been in the shop twice already, and it's not even a year old yet. Piece of s**t.
I remembering hearing that jobs tried to sell it many times.He did not believe in his own product.Before toy story came out he tried to sell it to microsoft.I do not know how much of that is truth but thats what I remembering hearing
@torhGreat link.It all goes to show you that having good ideas is only part of the battle. Getting resources to implement your ideas is often harder. I rather think that Disney deserves a great amount of credit. Spending $100 million to promote the animation that made Pixar a success took a certain mentality that is comfortable with risks.
Disney had their chance to buy Pixar back in 1986 too and turned it down. But that is good and bad...Good...cause Jeffrey Katzenberg & Michael Eisner would have ruined Pixar, CAPS & John Lasseter by now.Bad...Disney lost some money to say the least. $10m compared to $7.4b.
joel2600Feb 3, 2006
it was given up in the heat of passion. two old dudes, captured in a loving embrace .... "yes, yes, you can have my company cheap..." it happens more than you think.why do you think colnel sanders died?
zetsurinFeb 3, 2006
He sold them in a furious chair-throwing rage because they refused to paste a different actor over the original Anakin Skywalker ghost at the end of ROTJ.
j_belloneFeb 4, 2006
I have a love-hate attitude towards Apple as well, except I hate them, and love absolutely nothing from them. My iPod has been in the shop twice already, and it's not even a year old yet. Piece of s**t.
riotFeb 4, 2006
I remembering hearing that jobs tried to sell it many times.He did not believe in his own product.Before toy story came out he tried to sell it to microsoft.I do not know how much of that is truth but thats what I remembering hearing
archimboldoFeb 4, 2006
@torhGreat link.It all goes to show you that having good ideas is only part of the battle. Getting resources to implement your ideas is often harder. I rather think that Disney deserves a great amount of credit. Spending $100 million to promote the animation that made Pixar a success took a certain mentality that is comfortable with risks.
jamesob5Mar 25, 2006
Disney had their chance to buy Pixar back in 1986 too and turned it down. But that is good and bad...Good...cause Jeffrey Katzenberg & Michael Eisner would have ruined Pixar, CAPS & John Lasseter by now.Bad...Disney lost some money to say the least. $10m compared to $7.4b.