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SPECIAL: Steve Jobs (Part 2)

My First Million

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Pixar's Toy Story Is Not Profitable

Pixar was not profitable. They did not have the money to make a full length feature film, a movie. Everything before this was two d and mostly hand drawn cartoons like snow white or lion king. This is the first film to use computers to animate objects that appeared three dimensional on the screen. Steve sees an early cut of the movie and realizes, wow, this is great. But there is one problem, one fly in the ointment. The deal they had made with disney gave disney all the power and profits.

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