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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success Sep 1, 2026 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 28:49 Shane Parrish Was he funding Pixar at the same time? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:54 unnamed speaker Was personally funding two companies, Next Computer and Pixar, from 1985 to 1995. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:52 unnamed speaker He was gone in the sense that he went to Pixar more. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:32 Shane Parrish And so Pixar are IPOs, and that gives Steve a lot of financial freedom.
  • ▶ 41:01 unnamed speaker And Steve was thinking, well, I just want to stick with Pixar because I really loved Toy Story. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:06 unnamed speaker He said goodbye, you know, and he was thinking of going back to Pixar.
  • ▶ 47:28 unnamed speaker All this drama at Next and Pixar.
  • ▶ 54:05 unnamed speaker He still loves Pixar.
  • ▶ 59:03 unnamed speaker Lorraine created structure in his life, a structure outside of Apple, and I think that, you know, Steve, as he got older, was able to not just be an Apple guy anymore, but was able to decenter his life among family, among Next, among Pixar.

Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley Jun 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:44 Bill Gurley And one year he bought a dinner with John Lasseter, the creative genius behind Pixar.

Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work Feb 7, 2023 · 1 mention

#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity Oct 5, 2021 · 1 mention

#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position Jun 1, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:16 Shane Parrish Help the likes of Google, Pixar, and the MBA re-examine how they can design meaningful jobs, build creative teams, and shape collaborative cultures.

#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk Apr 14, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:47 Jason Calacanis Just like Rat Tattoo in the Pixar movie, like, you know, great chef could come from anywhere.

#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion Oct 1, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:20 Jim Collins And then having to sort of grow from that, and then to learn from people like Ed Catmull at Pixar, and then how to come back as the seasoned, much less in many ways interesting, because it wasn't so strange, it was just really effective,…

#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull May 28, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:57 Thomas Tull I mean, they, I think under Bob Iger's leadership, and then Alan Horn, who was my partner at Warner Brothers before he went over to Disney, I mean, they went out and cornered the market between Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars with, with…

#1 Michael Mauboussin: When To Trust Your Gut Apr 28, 2015 · 1 mention

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