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Title:
To Pixar and beyond : my unlikely journey with Steve Jobs to make entertainment history
ISBN:
9780544734142
Physical Description:
xii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
Abstract:
"After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple in the early 1990's, while building his failed competitor NeXT, he made a side bet to develop a little-known, barely profitable video graphics company called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained attorney, in the hope that Jobs could somehow persuade Levy to join forces with him in his quest to energize Pixar. Somehow, despite Pixar's very modest beginnings, Levy, Jobs, and studio chief Ed Catmull, were able to shape it into the world's most creative motion picture company. This is Levy's account of those early beginnings at Pixar, of his friendship with Jobs, and how they were able to join forces to transform Pixar into one of Hollywood's greatest success stories"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Why would you do that? -- Good soldiers -- Planet Pixar -- Starving artist -- My big break -- What's an entertainment company? -- Few options -- Four pillars -- IPO dreaming -- On board -- The gatekeepers -- Speechless -- West coast swagger -- Hollywood cred -- Two numbers -- El Capitan -- PIXR -- From the heart -- Anatomy of a deal -- Poker time -- The last 20 percent -- A little credit -- Flickers -- Just keep swimming -- Finding my deli -- A hundred years -- The middle way.
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Format:
Books
Publication Date:
2016
Language:
English
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