How Steve Jobs Started PIXAR 

Fun fact: Pixar movies reference Apple a lot like iMac G3 in Toy Story, Apple logo in Cars, Mac boot chime and iPod in Wall-E, iPhone 5s on Ralph breaks the internet. And so does Apple uses Toy Story characters on Apple Watch

Kinda ironic how Apple uses 'I' in their products and Pixar literally suffocates it

When Steve jobs died, Disneyworld put their flags raised half paying their respect to their largest shareholder.

Steve Jobs: exists* Greg: I’m about to explain this mans whole career

Just brilliant from Jobs. This proves he was not just a great innovator but also a great businessman.

My cousin and I saw Toy Story 4 in the movie theater, and when it ended he knew I was a fan of Apple so he mentioned how Steve Jobs made Pixar possible. I had no idea at all about Steve’s involvement and I didn’t believe him. After a quick search on my iPhone, I discovered it was all real. A movie production company I grew up loving and continuing to love in adulthood was actually another business reinvented thanks to not only creative computing, but also Steve’s intuition that technology married to humanities and arts was a formula for magic.

This is so interesting I already knew he started Pixar but wanted to know more.

Lucas needed to generate some cash due to his pending divorce. He originally wanted $30 mil for the company that would become Pixar. Jobs waited him out and paid &10 million. One investment that paid off quite well eh?😀

Steve Jobs' life is a beacon of hope to all of us out here struggling through bad times. 👏 As it's often said, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going". What a man.

I’ve always thought about the fact that, casually, Apple was founded on April 1st. It was definitely no joke though. Pixar is another brilliant company Jobs contributed to.

When I was young, I was so surprised to learn that Steve actually kickstarted, funded, and led Pixar after getting fired at Apple and starting Next. I never would have guessed that the guy who mad Apple successful was also part of what made Pixar successful. What's even more surprising was that Pixar isn't even a consumer goods company. They're not even a services company. The only had the technology and didn't know what to do with it. It's a good thing Steve allowed Lasseter and the rest of the team to create animated stories. I remember reading somewhere that Steve did that because he knew that's what the team was passionate about doing. So he put in even more money to help them get started on making animated shorts. Even then, Steve understood the potential of people's passions and crazy ideas. What I'm interested in now is how Steve's relationship with Disney went before, during, and after their partnership and acquisition. I remember reading Michael Eisner and Steve constantly butt heads around the turn of century. This in part how Eisner lost faith in Pixar despite raking in so much revenue for Disney. But when Eisner was finally ousted, thanks to Roy E. Disney and his team, Bob Iger was able to right the wrongs Eisner made in his tenure as CEO. That included repairing the rift between Pixar and Disney and, by extension, between Steve and Disney. Since being instated as Apple's CEO, Steve became busy in running the company what with all the success of the iMac, iPod, and macOS X. He didn't have much time for Pixar. So he knew it would be a good deal to sell it to Disney instead. The deal would be announced around early January 2006, well into the development of the iPhone and, unfortunately, well into the development of Steve's pancreatic cancer. The day Steve and Bob were to announce the acquisition deal, Steve took Bob aside and revealed theat his cancer had come back. He did this as a final warning to Bob, giving him one last chance to back out from the deal. Fortunately, Bob was determined to see it through. I'm always so interested in Steve's realtionship with Pixar and Disney. There's so much history between them. We've barely even scratched the surface. I also believe that Walt Disney and Steve Jobs were similar in a lot of ways in terms of being a leader, company owner, and visionary. Both died at their prime.

I got recommended instead of getting notified lol.

Glad to hear you are okay. We are happy to have you back!

Steve jobs indeed is the pioneer of the current world we live in..

It's funny how people are discreting Jobs with how he is just a Marketing person and doesn't know how to Engineer, Develop or Design. However I can't image our lives without his vision and sheer focus. He really connected a lot of dots for us. I absolutely believe that the computers wasn't going to have pretty fonts if it wasn't for him taking those Calligraphy classes at Reed College.

Steve Jobs is such an inspiration

i love you cause i love tech and your comments on trishas videos are GOLD.

Your narration is impressive, also the soundtrack was very well selected and used.

Yes another upload! Your videos are the best keep the great work up!

One of the best videos you've made

I love the theme music you use in all your videos..

It's fascinating to hear of these geniuses... Of how time and chance played a part in their success

Your videos are amazing. Would love to see stuff on TV+

thats sooo interesting. Didnt know that. Thank you for you crazy work 👍

👏👏👏 great and succinct. Amazing. Thanks Greg!

I think we pander to Steve Jobs too much. Yes, the man was a genius, and yes, he was integral in the Pixar story, but he certainly didn't "start" Pixar. Ed Catmull, the actual founder of Pixar, explained it all in his book "Creativity Inc." He'd wanted to make a computer-animated movie since he was a young kid. Through the book you can see that computer-animated cartoons weren't a matter of "if", but "when." Ed, John Lasseter, and Steve Jobs just happened to be at the helm at the time. And Job's main input, actually his biggest contribution, was financial aid, and choice advice on when Pixar went public ( before the Disney deal, etc). Again, no disrespect to the man, but the Pixar story LARGELY happened because of the tenaciousness of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter, not Steve Jobs.

Hey, Greg. If you haven't already, could you please explain Apple's app store screening process. I think that would be fascinating.

WOW THIS IS REALLY INSPIRED ME A LOT.

Thank you so much Steve, you helped launch the company that has given us so many amazing childhood memories!

As a huge Pixar fan and an apple nerd, I love this connection

I cant believe it!!! Im glad I saw this. Animation is everything!!!

This explains why there’s a toy story Apple Watch face along with mickeys

Amazing story.. great video 👍 thanks

A fresh air refreshment, there was no other way to at least make a transition in your company.

WOW! "A day in the life of ...". Can't waaaaaait! :-) :-) Thanks!

Steve Jobs was really an incredible mind, anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about. Even if you don’t like Apple, you gotta give some credit to a guy who: 1. Made the iPhone, which revolutionized the world 2. The iPad, really the only good tablet at the time 3. Founded two companies in what was considered to be his “Dark days” 4. Stuff I can’t think right now (reply below other things)

Great video keep it up.

I always watch your videos while i have my lunch and end up watching 2 more after it lol

Yeah I knew a lot of this Great video on it!!!

Wow this is amazing

Beautiful story. 44000 votes for your poll?! Wow. Congratulations, Greg.

Steve Jobs had a great legacy in animation. Therefore this kind of legacy should reflect in Apple products like Mac. However this wasn’t necessary the case at least in the last decade. And I hope that with Apple Silicon, with the performance and efficiency it brings this will begin to change.

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Was just watching a Pixar documentary!!

He’s a Legend!!!

If you want more details on this, the book to Pixar and beyond is a must read

Never been this early in my life :O

loved the ending

He didn't start Pixar. It was originally an internal team at Lucasfilm making editing & rendering tools.

Crazy ideas are often the most magical and effective after all....

Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith founded Pixar, not Steve Jobs. And it was named Pixar before Jobs became involved. Jobs was the investor, but poured so much money into the company to keep it alive that he ended up owning it. But he was not a founder. And John Lasseter was not a founder either!

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Ever since I was a kid and I saw Toy Story in the theater, I was a fan of Pixar. Then when I learned about Steve Jobs, I got interested in Apple, a brand I kind of ignored because I was a broke boy. Now after using Apple products for the last decade and watching Pixar movies, especially the Toy Story movies and The Incredibles movies, I am a Pixar and Apple stan!

How Steve Jobs started Pixar...He didn't, he bought it.

Lucas 🤗 and Jobs wow

My respect for Steve Jobs grew so much after this

What a genie he was!

Hats off to this man

I didn't know til maybe a few years ago that Steve Jobs was the first CEO of Pixar, and when I found that out, it both blew my mind, and also made me go "Well, I guess I'm not surprised". But man talk about a great resume to have. Not only did you start Apple, the most profitable tech company in the business, but you also co-founded Pixar, one of if not the most successful animation studios in the world; the very company that time and time again has brought Disney out of it's own self imposed Dark Age. Like damn, next you're gonna tell me he cured cancer through cunnilingis. (I'm obviously overexaggerating, I know the man wasn't perfect or a God, but talk about accomplishments)

omg my too goals in life being an artist and getting into tech and reviewing both finally meet i love apple and pixar and i see that they were started by the same person, all i can say is- OMG, OMG and OMG

Wow❤ But how do you know these??😮

today i learned that steve jobs helped create pixar wtf

🍷Hustler till life!

We should get more videos about Craig Federighi

Man I watch some of those

Me: Knows: Steve Jobs created Atari Me now: Steve Jobs created Pixar

0:15 3D animation. The first animation studios were created decades prior.

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Great video

It’s important to point out that Pixar did not use their own tech to create toy story. They used Sun sparcstations for toy story 1 and SGI computers for toy story 2. They always used the bleeding edge computer systems and weren’t afraid to spend money to do so.

Kind of makes sense why one of the packaged Apple Watch faces is Toy Story

I think it's important to stress just how much Jobs believed in the PIXAR animation team, they were not profitable for a long time, a lot longer than any other entrepreneur would've been able to handle, but Jobs stuck it through because he knew the films they were making were special

Steve jobs when he found Pixar: BAHHHHH!

It’s worth noting that George Lucas was also in the bitter end of a nasty divorce and on top of that being the independent filmmaker he was, wasn’t making a whole lot off his independent company he spent so long setting up to do Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow. He needed some cash because his movies were too expensive, and too far and in between to turn a profit. Funny though he still refers to Pixar as “my company”

That’s why Disney+ is available in Apple’s new start up product Apple Vision Pro while Netflix and Spotify are just being against it.

That explains the Mac chime in walle

This guy…Pixar movie, Toy story was my real first movie ever in my life. God dang it.

I am a fan of apple and pixar movies.

Make a video on how Alexandr Wang made Scale AI.

Luxo Jr was on Sesame Street in 1990

1:54 which operating system run this machine? Is it a hackintosh?

Jobs, what a name

He made Toy story and is my favourite Toy story film

I didn’t know Steve Jobs was even closely related to Pixar

Looks like an insiders thumbnail

Dude would be so rich and so far in life if he was still alive.

do a video about how Toy Story didn't back up their project.

Please do Apple Glasses

Steve Jobs died a successful man. R.I.P STEVE JOBS 1955-2011

Yes he has a hobby named design

Pixar: Apple you copy me with your iMac g4!! Apple: pixar.. am your father.

Disney love their merchandising right they have the spider-man rights from Sony

Fourteenth! It feels good hitting play when the video says “No views” :)

Kool

I love Pixar

1. Apple was faltering when Jobs returned to it. He apparently almost didn’t take the job. 2. Churchill apparently never said that

History of Apple without jobs in 80s and 90s

I love videos

*one of the first CGI animation studios - ahem

Actually if you incorporate Microsoft motion scanner and animation each drawing object with your own motion then a hand full group less than 20 person with voice , writers , painters musician and computers can create hundred million dollars movies like toy r us like frozen ect or tinker Bell and pro fit more any any other film company before from Columbia to twenty century or TriStar ect