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Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 18:16 David Senra My favorite, the way I think about this, it's Ed Catmull, who's the founder of Pixar. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 28:51 David Senra and I've covered it on other, like Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull episodes, but you know, he started Pixar. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 49:25 David Senra This was explicitly stated in Ed Catmull. 3 times in the scene
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 1:05:39 David Senra The next highlight is a quote from Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar talking about, he didn't even realize at the beginning of his company, how poor the communication was and that there was things going on in his company that his, the…
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:40:28 David Senra The next highlight is a quote from Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar talking about, he didn't even realize at the beginning of his company, how poor the communication was and that there was things going on in his company that his, the…
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 2:45 David Senra Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, and it was written by Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar, and he lays out exactly what this book is about, this surprising twist that happened his entire life. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:34 David Senra 40 years later, that is exactly what Ed Catmull is doing, did in his career, but is also doing in his book. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:31 David Senra So he's like, ok, well, I'm gonna design computer languages. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:18 David Senra Okay, so I want to get into what set the stage for Ed to actually begin his partnership with Steve Jobs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:09 David Senra And this was Ed's initial reaction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:37 David Senra And Ed realizes, oh my God, what kind of environment am I building here? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:37 David Senra And one of the things you most admire if you read this book about both Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, and John Lasseter is that they believe that quality is the best business plan. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:29 David Senra Another idea Ed preaches, you start with something that sucks, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 David Senra And so Ed's takeaway from this is I came to think of our meltdowns, our problems, as a necessary part of doing our business, like investments in research and development. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:47 David Senra Ed Catmull and John Lasseter are gonna be ahead of Pixar and Disney Animation, and so this is their, you know, a new mission, uh, to use that example that, you know, at, from the beginning of the book where he had to pick a new mission…
- ▶ 1:00:49 David Senra Ed's point with that story is this, it's in direct conflict with what was a popular narrative. 8 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 42:43 David Senra Uh, Ed Catmull, the, his co-founder and the guy that wrote Creativity Inc talks about this.
- ▶ 1:43:09 David Senra And so based on my understanding of Steve throughout this reading, I think the person that was most influential on how he managed when he came back to Apple was actually the time he spent with Ed Catmull, seeing how Ed Catmull actually ran… 3 times in the scene