Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas in '86 - a year after he started Next. It was a PC maker that did a short film as a demo that won an Oscar - so they did Toy Story (basically). Jobs financed the film personally and was Pixar's CEO and primary owner until he sold it to Disney in 2006 - which is why the Jobs family are today the largest single shareholders of Disney.
My understanding is Jobs was not the creative force behind Pixar - but he was the financial, business strategy, and one who was willing to take a risk on Pixar making films rather than the software and hardware used to make the films. John Lasseter gets credit for the creative stuff. Ironically, he was fired from Disney for promoting computer animation (basically) before starting at Pixar pre-Jobs, he's now a Disney executive thanks to computer animation. -greg _______________ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. > On Nov 22, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Andrew Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: > > He worked for Pixar before going back to Apple. Can't remember if it was > before or during NeXT. > >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... Steve Jobs was an executive producer of Toy Story? Huh. Imagine that. >> LGTM as well. >> >> --Ed >> >>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> Lgtm >>> >>> mobile. >>> >>>> On Nov 21, 2015 17:27, "Jeff Elder" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Twitter: >>>> 20 years ago today Toy Story was released. It was 1st feature film created >>>> using only computer-generated imagery. >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story >>>> >>>> Facebook: >>>> Twenty years ago today "Toy Story" was released. It was the first feature >>>> film created using only computer-generated imagery. One of the movie's >>>> executive producers was Steve Jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story >>>> >>>> Twitter: >>>> Ten years ago today, Angela Merkel assumed office as the first female >>>> Chancellor of Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel >>>> >>>> Jeff Elder >>>> Digital communications manager >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> 704-650-4130 >>>> @jeffelder >>>> @wikipedia >>>> The Wikimedia blog >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Social-media mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> >> >> -- >> Ed Erhart >> Editorial Associate >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > > > -- > Andrew Sherman > Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation > > E: [email protected] > WMF: ASherman (WMF) > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
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