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Pixar’s Formula For Storytelling Success & Emotional Persuasion w/ Founder Ed Catmull EP 1474

The School of Greatness

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Steam Jobs: The Acquisition of ILM Graphics

We were never part of ILM, but they needed somebody in ILM as they started that transition to digital technology. So we were acquired by Steam Jobs. Although we had done something earlier for them like for Star Trek, there was that thing we flew over the planet and it turned lifelike. Sure. But I found somebody to help run the graphics group. And then we got to the point where George, you know, because he got divorced and his cash position was now completely different than he needed to sell us. It's a year long stressful period for us. The basic principle was that you actually make the assumption that everybody can be better. Not the same, but everybody can

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