R.I.P Steve. Thanks for All the memories And The Contributions to this World You Will Be Missed Greatly But Never Forgotten 
I was driving home after school with a group of my friends, when one of them checked facebook and said there was a lot of statuses about Steve Job’s death. I’ll never forget that.
Words can’t describe how much he changed the world.
The sadest part is that he was so young. I knew he’s been very sick, and that he stepped down as CEO. But it was still a shock, I thought he’d be around for a while longer.
Read about Steve in the paper today and I was a little upset that there wasn’t a little mention of him at Pixar. It mainly talked about him and Apple. Ah well, Steve Jobs will surely be missed by me.
Exactly. I knew this was going to happen soon, but it shocked me, nevertheless.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Only one article I’ve read mentioned Pixar, and just barely. Oh well. My heart goes out to his family.
I read an article today called ‘9 Things you dont’ know about Steve Jobs.’ He was such an interesting guy! From dropping out of college, to being adopted, to his strange family relationships, to Buddhism. They need to make a movie out of this guy! I also never knew that LSD had a very important part in his life and how it helped him make Apple products.
If they could make The Social Network out of Facebook, they surely can make one about Jobs. There are a lot of interesting events there, like when he was fired from the company he created himself.
I was reading Steve Jobs bio and it says he went to elementary school in Mountain View, Ca. So did I, but not the same one and I went to school later than him. Anyways, I stumbled on this rave from Steve Jobs about Pixar just before Toy Story. Steve Jobs had vision.
Source:[url]http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/sj1.html#pixar[/url]
Wow. Great find.
That’s the most interesting thing I’ve read today.
The story of Pixar doesn’t start with Steve Jobs, altho the name did. It started really at LucasFilm with software developers and specialized computer makers and one animator, Lasseter. Lucas wanted to get rid of the team, I guess since they had already solved the problems he was most pressed over, and since they had become just a cash drain. Edit: no, it was his divorce, see my post further down
So Jobs funded the few millions per year for the first few years after he bought the technology group from LucasFilm in 1986, while the studio had much smaller returns, i.e. it was unprofitable. Jobs quickly came to understand what Lasseter and Company were up to and was able to articulate it to the rest of us such as in the article above. But it doesn’t seem that he had the same sort of ‘hands-on’ approach that was using at Next. It seems he allowed Pixar to evolve from helping with commercial advertisements to small animated shorts to providing software for other studio’s full length movies to finally this first full length feature which was started in 1990 with funding from Disney and finally released in 1995. His ethos was “just make it great”. He doesn’t seem to have sat down with each movies dev’t team and call the play-by-play, which some sports team owners have done to their coaches during the game.
And this makes me ask the question: “Besides buying and naming and funding Pixar and telling them to ‘just make it great’, what did he actually typically do with the development of each movie?” Was he so busy with Next that he had just occasional time to saunter up to Richmond to check on things?
Next, a little background is needed here. The Next computer system, was being developed at the same time Jobs bought Pixar, and eventually sold to Apple Computer in 1997 for almost half a billion. Apple wanted the operating system that Jobs had overseed development of since it was superior to anything Apple had at the time and Next was just too expensive a system to be affordable to those who wanted it. Next wasn’t a Lisa or Apple III, it didn’t lay an egg. After being fired from Apple Comp. in 1985 by the Board & Scully and brought back in '97 by another CEO, he had been twelve years away while ‘his’ company pulled a near disappearing act.
There is a well known 2 hour plus movie on the story of Silicon Valley, heavy with HP and Apple and Jobs. It was produced by employee #12 at Apple, a man who later quit or moved on long before Jobs came back to run the company. In this movie, the acquisition of Pixar by Jobs is given only passing reference as if it was one of his toys, like Lasseter’s full sized locomotive he has in his backyard. Strange. I read that Jobs had like 7.7 million shares of Apple, valued in the low hundreds of dollars each and that comes to about $2.5Billion. Disney’s deal to buy Pixar gave Jobs an immense number of shares in that company that I read were worth something like $7Billion. Well, of course Apple’s valuation has gone from probably a few billion in 1997 to the low hundreds of billions today.
The point I would like to make is that even tho Pixar is worth maybe 2% of what Apple is, the importance of this studio to our world figures much more prominently than just a pile of dollars and valuations. One way to prove this is to look at the career of Jobs himself. Even tho Apple Computer was a small potatoes company back in the early 1980’s, Jobs was probably one of the top 5 or so most well known business leaders in the country. His name came up every few weeks in the news from his ‘headquarters in Cupertino’. His company then was worth maybe 2% of Exxon or GM or IBM. First came the IBM PC to quickly unseat Apple from everywhere except Universities and then Compaq to unseat IBM. Still, you kept hearing about what Jobs was up to or had to say. He was doing things ‘differently’ and coming up with new things, which are always newsworthy. In the early 00’s I would drive by the Cupertino HQ and see a giant banner of Einstein hanging along the side of the building with an accompanying ‘Think Different’ logo. He was a media personality for 30 full years and died at his greatest peak.
People calling him the “Da Vinci of our time” is going a little far though. While Jobs did have undeniable talent, most of his products stemmed from pre-existing technologies that he just made user-friendly as opposed to completely original ideas.
Spirit of Adventure wrote:
Well, Sony may acquire the movie rights to the authorized biography of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
Source: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/10/07/business/AP-US-Steve-Jobs-Sony-Biopic.html?hpw[/url]
Wow, I called it. They even mention The Social Network in the article.
Actually, I was thinking in adapting that book, seeing that it’s the top pre-order on Amazon right now.
Well, it didn’t actually happen, whew! All of my Japanese online friends seem to have survived. You were gone for a long time it seems. I live in Mountain View CA also and used to live about a mile from Mr. Jobs. Never remember crossing paths with him altho I know a few people who must have known him since they worked for his company.
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Well, there was that time, three days after the tsunami hit, a wave of water went to the porch of my house. I was getting water from the swimming pool near my house. I was using the pool water to flush the toilet. Anyways, I was using this big round plastic container about 20 gallons big and this container tipped over halfway up on the incline to my house. Splash.
I found some trivia about Steve Jobs from this Japanese magazine.
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When Steve Jobs liked the draft of Tin Toy, he budgeted money to make the short film. No Tin Toy, no Toy Story.
In Monsters Inc. there’s ‘Think Fun’. That’s a reference to ‘Think Different’ when Steve Jobs went back to Apple Co. On this other site it says ‘Think Funny’. 
I heard it on Thursday this week from a classmate. I was in denial–then I went home and my dad told me everything. Ad since my ol’ man’s a true blue Jobs follower, we watched Pirates of Silicon Valley last night.
I’m really sad about what happened and I hope his family’s doing okay, but we at Pixar will always-ALWAYS-remember the guy who tried (and succeeded!) changing the world.
You defintely did call it! I’d like to see a Steve Jobs movie.
^Today I read more about it. Apparently they taking it very seriously at Sony.
Guess what, i was watching the Discovery Channel. and i just saw the commercial for Steve Jobs’ tribute! It will be called iGenius.
maybe they will talk about Steve’s career at Pixar!
(Just telling you guys. oh, it will be on at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time on Sunday the 16th.)
I have the YouTube link here: youtube.com/watch?v=8mnQPlgDX7s
And that might be a very thin book, or movie short. From The Pixar Story to the wiki, it’s very difficult to find out the specifics of what his role really was, beyond entrepreneur. But thanks some of you for cluing us in about a few tidbits.
Something I just read in the book iCon. They mentioned the differences in style between Wozniak and Jobs. Woz was a joke writer and came up with a free joke-a-day and posted them. He would laugh and split open his sides when he did so. (Makes you wonder why it wasn’t Wozniak who bought the Lasseter team and made Pixar even better, yes better. I met his daughter once while visiting a customer she was dating in a fraternity. He was a nice Jewish boy from Miami Beach.) Jobs on the other hand would grin but rarely laughed and would never ‘split his side open’. It makes me wonder how he sat thru the Pixar movies, where there is a gag about every 50 seconds.
Hey, has anyone been to Pixar.com lately? They’ve taken it down now, but a few days ago the front page had a picture of Steve sitting between Catmull and Lasseter, with an inscription in memory of him. They also said something to comfort Jobs’ family. I thought it was pretty nice. 