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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

4.22 (6283ratings)

Author:Lawrence Levy

Published:November 1st 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Book genres

Business, Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, History, Management, Audiobook, Technology, Biography Memoir, Leadership

Topics

Pixar, Steve Jobs, Entrepreneurship, Innovation


The never-before-told story of Pixar`s improbable success?

“Hi, Lawrence?” the caller asked. “This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we’d work together someday.”

After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he bought a little-known graphics company called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive to whom he had never spoken before, to persuade Levy to help him get Pixar off the ground.

What Levy found was a company on the verge of failure. To Pixar and Beyond is the story of what happened next: how, working closely with Jobs, Levy produced and implemented a highly improbable plan that transformed Pixar into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories.

Set in the worlds of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the book takes readers inside Pixar, Disney, law firms, and investment banks. It provides an up-close, firsthand account of Pixar’s ascent, how it made creative choices, Levy’s enduring collaboration and friendship with Jobs, and how Levy came to see in Pixar deeper lessons that can apply to many aspects of our lives.