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How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 31:00 David Senra And then another example of this is, um, uh, Steve Jobs was, was studying the animation industry when he was trying to build Pixar, and what he realized was the vast value of Disney's film library.
The Merchant Bankers
- ▶ 36:17 David Senra Actually, one of my favorite conversations I had recently was with Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar. 3 times in the scene
Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 5:32 David Senra So he's watching George Lucas because he's going to buy Pixar from George Lucas because George Lucas is going through this divorce.
- ▶ 33:55 David Senra Years later, he confided in Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull
- ▶ 45:30 David Senra Steve Jobs for the longest consecutive time was Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar.
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 2:01 David Senra It's actually one of the main points in Ed Catmull, who's the co-founder of Pixar.
- ▶ 14:24 David Senra Ed Catmull, I already referenced him, founder of Pixar, he says, originality is fragile, and in its first moments, it's often far from pretty.
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 7:13 David Senra Deep historical knowledge, and he used that deep historical knowledge and influenced the work in building Apple and Pixar and everything else that he was involved in, but the one person he took the most ideas from was undoubtedly Edwin…
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 43:03 David Senra Same time, he bought Pixar, which was spun off from filmmaker George Lucas's Empire. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:00 David Senra So, from Reed College, he's asked to give this, this, uh, speech, and the reason this is important, and you'll see what, which point I, I, I chose to highlight, is because Nexus computers, they're not selling, and Pixar just had a, did a…
- ▶ 49:10 David Senra It says, as Pixar became a leader in graphics, Steve and his mentor, Andy Grove, discussed how Intel might learn from Pixar. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:11 David Senra This is after Pixar's release of Toy Story and its successful IPO, but next is still struggling and hasn't been purchased by Apple yet.
- ▶ 1:06:18 David Senra So then right before he goes back to Apple, Steve gives an interview that's all about Pixar.
- ▶ 1:14:05 David Senra As did Pixar's blockbuster and award-winning films from the same period. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:08 David Senra So he says, I was working at Next, working at Pixar, reading the rumors in the papers that Apple's going to buy a company, and then they'll buy this company for their operating system, and one of our guys said, we should sell Next to them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:33 David Senra Then he found, helped found Pixar.
- ▶ 1:44:51 David Senra And that's one of my mantras around Apple and Pixar, right? 3 times in the scene
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.
- ▶ 1:25:41 David Senra It's something Steve Jobs said that Pixar, when he had 404 hundred employees, it's the first team of all A players that he ever saw in his life.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 15:49 David Senra When he went to meet Steve Jobs, this is when Steve Jobs was running Pixar. 2 times in the scene
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 28:39 David Senra And I really think editing is an act of service, but I'm, I was rereading Steve's shareholder letters from Pixar and his 1997 shareholder. 2 times in the scene
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 26:33 David Senra Hilarious that 45 years later, the first movie that Disney and Pixar
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 1:05:53 David Senra And people were like this, just like Pixar and people, you can't make a computer at the world's first computer animated feature film. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 3:52 David Senra When I mentioned Steven Spielberg on a Steve jobs episode, when I mentioned Spielberg on the Christopher Nolan and the James Cameron episode, it pulled an idea from Spielberg that I mentioned in an episode on Pixar.
- ▶ 28:56 David Senra He's the one that had that hired Ed Catmull. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:27 David Senra Uh, Steve jobs has this great quote where he's like, you know, Pixar was the first time I see, I saw an entire team, entire company of eight players, but they had 400 players. 2 times in the scene
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 57:07 David Senra Founder of Pixar.
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 50:55 David Senra It's something Steve Jobs said that Pixar, when he had 404 hundred employees, it's the first team of all A players that he ever saw in his life.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 5:54 David Senra The note I left myself was this is the Pixar of fashion houses. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 David Senra So once he decided to go ahead, this is when he starts to, the way I think about this, he starts building like the pack, the Pixar fashion houses.
- ▶ 43:48 David Senra Uh, Steve Jobs has this great quote where he's like, you know, Pixar was the first time I see, I saw an entire team 2 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:20:21 David Senra Uh, Steve Jobs has this great quote where he's like, you know, Pixar was the first time I see, I saw an entire team 2 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:39:15 David Senra Uh, Steve Jobs has this great quote where he's like, you know, Pixar was the first time I see, I saw an entire team 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:08:44 David Senra Uh, Steve Jobs has this great quote where he's like, you know, Pixar was the first time I see, I saw an entire team 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 49:27 David Senra Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar, the person that worked with Steve Jobs the longest consecutive time.
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)
- ▶ 1:54 David Senra Over the years, as Pixar struggled to find its way, I asked myself, if Pixar is ever successful, will we do something stupid too? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:48 David Senra The way they ran this department is the way that a decade or two into the future, Ed Catmull is going to run Pixar. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 David Senra And it is through George Lucas that Ed Catmull is eventually going to partner with Steve Jobs and create the Pixar that we know today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:45 David Senra They're gonna make this thing called the Pixar Image Computer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:06 David Senra He's got to sell a bunch of assets to fulfill this divorce settlement, and Pixar is going to be one of those assets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:41 David Senra This would be the kind of strategic, aggressive play that would define Steve's stewardship of Pixar for years to come. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:01 David Senra The main business that we chose was to sell the Pixar image computer, which is going to fail.
- ▶ 27:14 David Senra My approach to managing Pixar going forward was to be guided by the central tenant.
- ▶ 27:50 David Senra Steve had sunk fifty four million of his own money into the company, a significant chunk of his net worth and more money than any venture capital firm would have considered investing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:45 David Senra So they approached Disney, and they're gonna build out, uh, they actually tried to, um, initially Disney wanted to recruit John Lasseter, which was one of the founding members of Pixar. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:06 David Senra Pixar's people are ambitious high achievers who wanted to, who want to do their best and then some.
- ▶ 39:34 David Senra It was a signal to everyone at Pixar that they were part owners of the company's greatest asset. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:43 David Senra Pixar films are not good at first. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:18 David Senra At Apple, he had the reputation of being deeply involved in the most minute details of every product, but at Pixar, he didn't believe that his instincts were better than the people here, so he stayed out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:11 David Senra What's fascinating is we see Ed Catmull, uh, noticing that as they, like, continue to grow and make more movies in Pixar.
- ▶ 51:41 David Senra There's an entire, it goes into this new challenge when Steve decides to sell Pixar to Disney. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:06 David Senra And I think Pixar played a role in that development. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:03 David Senra Brad Bird, the filmmaker, remembers a meeting during the making of the movie The Incredibles soon after he joined the studio when Steve hurt his feelings by saying that some of The Incredibles' artwork looked kind of 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 22:32 David Senra They are the Pixar of fashion houses.
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 43:29 David Senra And what, what's fascinating is like, uh, Steve jobs talked about, Hey, you know, once they, they figured out Pixar, wasn't going to produce, uh, they were, they were trying to sell hardware and then try to sell software to other companies.
Robert Caro on Power, Poverty, Ruthlessness, Obsession & Running.
- ▶ 8:22 David Senra Uh, this is before he founds Next, before he founds Pixar, and he's walking around, I think, Paris, uh, with his girlfriend, and, you know, he's got the equivalent of about, like, two hundred million dollars at that point, never has to…
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 41:01 David Senra Same time, uh, he bought Pixar, which was spun off from filmmaker George Lucas's Empire. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:18 David Senra It says, as Pixar became a leader in graphics, Steve and his mentor, Andy Grove, discussed how Intel might learn from Pixar. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:22 David Senra This is after Pixar's release of Toy Story and its successful IPO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:02 David Senra So then right before he goes back to Apple, Steve gives an interview that's all about Pixar.
- ▶ 1:11:10 David Senra As did Pixar's blockbuster and award-winning films from the same period. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:14 David Senra So he says, I was working at Next, working at Pixar, reading the rumors in the papers that Apple's going to buy a company, and then they'll buy this company for their operating system, and one of our guys said, we should sell Next to them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:59 David Senra Then he found, helped found Pixar.
- ▶ 1:42:47 David Senra And that's one of my mantras around Apple and Pixar, right? 3 times in the scene
Paul Graham's Essays Part II
- ▶ 46:57 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…
Paul Graham's Essays
- ▶ 1:21:22 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…
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 54:41 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…
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
- ▶ 32:37 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…
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 57:24 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…
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 36:03 David Senra This is where he discovers hidden in George Lucas's Lucasfilm division is what's going to eventually become Pixar. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:15 David Senra They're about to give him, them sixty million dollars that he desperately needs, and we're gonna contrast this right now with the Disney Pixar negotiations that he's gonna do like 15 years into the future, which was a masterful negotiation.
- ▶ 44:05 David Senra When he's making every wrong decision at Next, right, he's in the middle of a giant failure, another part of him was spending time at Pixar, and Pixar, the experience he has at Pixar, is everything for Steve's growth as a leader and a CEO… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:44 David Senra I'm going to dump fifty million of the seventy million I have into Pixar, and I'm still writing checks every month. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:01 David Senra There's actually a, uh, their computer was named the Pixar computer.
- ▶ 52:24 David Senra And something that's going to help you persevere is a lesson that Steve learned directly from Pixar and their process in making movies, which can be applied to building any product or any company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:46 David Senra They're not going to go out of business, like, when they were almost, you know, maybe on the precipice of bankruptcy, uh, he's putting a lot more time and effort, but now he's, again, he's not, he's building out talent, just like Ed built…
- ▶ 1:18:21 David Senra But, uh, it says, uh, in 1986, Steve Jobs was in exile from Apple, the company that would one day become Pixar, I'm reading my own notes to you, and this is not in the book, obviously, uh, was called Graphics Group and was owned by Star… 27 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:55 David Senra Uh, after several years of failing to make the Pixar image computer, Pixar decided to go all in on making films.