To Pixar and Beyond
by Lawrence B. Levy · first published 2016
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"After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple in the early 1990's, while building his failed competitor NeXT, he made a side bet to develop a little-known, barely profitable video graphics company called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained attorney, in the hope that Jobs could somehow persuade Levy to join forces with him in his quest to energize Pixar. Somehow, despite Pixar's very modest beginnings, Levy, Jobs, and studio chief Ed Catmull, were able to shape it into the world's most creative motion picture company. This is Levy's account
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…then at least you might get to read a good story. The hard thing about hard things, by Ben Horowitz The Score Takes Care of Itself, Bill Walsh (49ers Coach) Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull (Ran Pixar) To Pixar and Beyond, Lawrence Levy (CFO of Pixar with interesting different POV than Ed Catmull) Otherwise for any dumpster fire of a subject I want a book on, I'll try to trace the "lineage" to see where the starting points…
on “The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read” ↗…Unauthorised Biography (Simplistic history of money before and after coin. Good) - Hellbent (Enjoyed it, good for a holiday read) - Snow Crash (Classic, Awesome, read it) - The little prince (must read) - To Pixar and Beyond (A different viewpoint on Jobs)
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗…top of this, the art is absolutely gorgeous and is in a class of its own. If you're interested in Berserk, I recommend reading the original manga, but the 1997 anime is excellent as well. Nonfiction: To Pixar And Beyond. The former CFO of Pixar, Lawrence Levy, tells the story of Pixar's IPO and the making of Toy Story. Very interesting reading for anyone interesting in Steve Jobs, Pixar, or the business of movies and…
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗Back in 2017 a "Humble Bundle" package included the Lawrence Levy book "To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History"[0]. I got the book there and really enjoyed it. Levy was brought in, by Jobs, as CFO of Pixar prior to the IPO and the book is concerend…
on “The Real Story of Pixar” ↗Also read "To Pixar and Beyond" by Lawrence Levy, who Steve Jobs hired to save the company. It tells the Pixar story from the CFO perspective.
on “That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (2014)” ↗…really good "other side of the coin" is by Lawrence Levy who Jobs brought in as "the money guy" to find a way to make Pixar profitable as they tried to land Toy Story link to book - https://www.amazon.com/To-Pixar-and-Beyond-Lawrence-Levy-aud...
on “Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors” ↗>Excerpted from “To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey With Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History,” He likely covers it in the book.
on “How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire” ↗