John Lasseter
person on 10 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 72 times in 15 episodes since 2019
Acquired 25 
Founders 18 
the a16z Podcast 9 
David Senra 9 
the Knowledge Project 5 
20VC 2 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
My First Million 1 
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2026 40 mentions in 5 episodes 8 per episode
- Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- Building Pixar, Working With Steve Jobs, and Cultivating Creativity | Ed Catmull
- Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
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- Jeffrey Katzenberg & Sujay Jaswa: Takeaways from Dreamworks; What happened with Quibi? | 20VC #952 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
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2019 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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Disney fired John Lasseter, Tim Burton, and Brad Bird early on
“I mean, so there's people I mentioned, John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Tim Burton, John Musker, Brenda Chapman, all of them were hired directly by Disney and Disney Animation right out of school, and then Disney fired all of them.”
Katelin Holloway Spent Five Years Working Directly With Steve Jobs
“I spent five of some of the greatest years in life at that studio. I worked across dozens of films with some of the most incredible creatives of our generation. And also business leaders. I was working directly with and for Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, John Lassete…”
Katzenberg: Bringing Steve Jobs and Pixar to Disney was transformative
“For me, probably the most transformative moment is when you know, I reached out to Steve Jobs and John Lasseter and brought them into the Walt Disney Company and made a home for Pixar.”
Katzenberg: Bringing Pixar to Disney was his most transformative career moment
“For me, probably the most transformative moment is when I reached out to Steve Jobs and John Lasseter and brought them into the Walt Disney Company and made a home for Pixar.”
Levy: Executive challenge is accurately assessing talent, not having creative answers
“Not everybody in a startup company, you don't have to have John Lassar, but you have to be very discerning about the level of talent that you have. And I think that's the challenge for executives, not to think that they know, but to be able to Make a real asse…”