https://www.fastcompany.com/1826869/lost-steve-jobs-tapes
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Of the three companies Jobs helped create, Pixar was the purest corporate and organizational expression of his nature. If NeXT was a travail of spite and malice, Pixar was a labor of love.
The Pixar story began even before Jobs left Apple. In early 1985, Apple fellow Alan Kay called his attention to the computer Graphics Group (GG) skunk works in San Rafael, California, an ill-fitting piece of the filmmaking production puzzle George Lucas had assembled for his Skywalker Ranch studios. It was little more than a team of 25 engineers–including a young “user interface designer” named John Lasseter–who desperately wanted to continue to work together even though Lucas, then embroiled in the costly aftermath of a divorce, was looking
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Amazing read – if you ever want to get anything done well – read on Steve. We are so lucky to have lived in this visionary product creator’s time on earth. To hold his ideas in the shape of devices in our hands. I can’t imagine having to labour on the wooden barrel of windows all my life if Steve hadn’t come up with the mac.