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Ed Catmull

16 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2023 by Ed Catmull · across every show →

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Dec 5, 2023 positive
Insight
Catmull: Detaching contributors from their ideas makes creative feedback work
“For me, the magic means that people throw out ideas and they're not attached to them. If they help and they're accepted, good. If they don't help and they're not used, that's okay too, because you're not attached to them. And what we're trying to do is to figu…”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 38:29 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023
Assertion Supported
Catmull: 'Toy Story' subject was chosen due to computer graphics limits
“The film focused on toys because toys are all on flat surfaces and they're made of plastic. So it's easier to do. So some of what drove the topic was the limitations of what could even be done with computers at the time.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 30:07 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023
Insight
Catmull: Authority figures speaking first distorts group discussion and sets agendas
“Because if a person with authority starts the room, then everybody sort of lines up behind that. The agenda's been set. If the person with power doesn't say anything, then entering the discussion has an entirely different dynamic.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 37:41 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Insight
Catmull: Pixar relied on exponential computing growth before unit economics worked
“We put together what we thought was a long-term plan because we knew that underlying this industry was the exponential change in computer power and that the economics were not right and wouldn't be for several more years. But we had a plan to get ready for it,…”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 26:05 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Opinion
Steve Jobs underwent a dramatic personal transformation between 1991 and 1995
“I would say from 91 to 95 was a dramatic change in him as a person. He became more empathetic and caring. He paid attention to people. You actually begin to see him having a sense of humor.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 0:39 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023
Disclosure
Catmull: Pixar's Braintrust could suggest ideas but never override directors
“What they were supposed to do was to point out the problems, discuss it, make suggestions, but they couldn't tell people how to solve the problem. They couldn't override the director, and all this frankly was just to get it so that the director was free to lis…”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 38:00 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023
Insight
Ed Catmull: Creative processes have no permanent recipe or stable equilibrium
“There isn't the recipe. There isn't that sweet spot and you get there and you've made it. This stuff is fundamentally unstable. There is no stable point. You have to keep doing this over and over again, and it's always different. You go down a path and you rea…”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 45:10 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Catmull: Film studios initially showed zero interest in computer animation
“No studio was interested at all in anything that computers might do. I mean, there was zero interest. They didn't even think it was relevant.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 17:30 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 negative
Insight
Catmull: Leaders harm organizations by believing they must always know the answers
“The most damaging thing is if the leader thinks their job is to be right and to know the answer, well, you're kind of shutting things off when you think that way.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 21:02 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Opinion
Hoffman: Early computing revolution deeply parallels today's AI revolution
“There are deep parallels between the huge advances in computing underway at this point in Ed's story and the seismic impacts of the current AI revolution. Like AI, the computational wave that Ed was immersing himself in was going to inform sweeping changes in …”
Reid Hoffman Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 10:23 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
George Lucas spun off Pixar due to his 1983 divorce settlement
“Meanwhile, Lucasfilm was put under financial strain by George's 1983 divorce settlement. Although Ed's computer graphics division was making huge strides in technology, it wasn't making money for its parent company, so George made the decision to spin it off.”
Reid Hoffman Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 21:50 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 negative
Opinion
Catmull: Media stories on Steve Jobs focused on early bad behavior for drama
“So when the stories were written about him, they're about the early public stories, because frankly, it's kind of sexy to talk about bad behavior or various things like that.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 1:00 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Catmull: Disney expected animated films to have five to seven songs
“At Disney, all the films should be musicals with five to seven musical numbers and a funny sidekick.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 30:45 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Catmull: Only two students from my graphics cohort stayed in the field
“And we were the only two that stayed in computer graphics. Because we were the ones that rejected what was already in place and said, we need something new.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 13:21 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Insight
Ed Catmull: Smart teams with the right trajectory outperform experience
“Don't assume that you have to have all this experience to get something done. If you get some smart people who are in the right arc, they can do more than you expect.”
Ed Catmull Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 29:48 Pixar's Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules | Masters of Scale
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Catmull: Steve Jobs developed empathy and a sense of humor during 1991-1995
“I would say from 91 to 95 was a dramatic change in him as a person. He became more empathetic and caring. He paid attention to people. You actually begin to see him having a sense of humor.”
Ed Catmull Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 19:23 Highlights to inspire your 2024 (with Ron Howard, Daymond John, Reshma Saujani) | Masters of Scale
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