Animating Pixar | The Unmade Future | 2
Business Movers
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Pixar prepares to make history with the world’s first computer-animated movie. But the project quickly heads south as external interests and internal tensions turn Ed’s dream project into a nightmare.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to business movers, add free on Amazon Music, download the app today. |
| 0:22.0 | It's 1990 at the Bay Area Headquarters of Steve Jobs' Computer Company next. |
| 0:29.0 | Pixar President and co-founder Ed Catton opens the building's front door and steps inside the lavish corporate workplace. |
| 0:36.0 | Behind him is Pixar's vice president and fellow co-founder, Avi Ray Smith. |
| 0:41.0 | Together they walk up the building's floating staircase and head to a conference room to meet Steve Jobs for a Pixar board meeting. |
| 0:48.0 | When they open the door to the conference room, they find Steve already waiting for them at the head of the table, a frown on his face and a whiteboard next to him, |
| 0:56.0 | already bearing a list of Steve's concerns with Pixar. |
| 1:00.0 | Ed and Avi barely get in a word before Steve kicks off the meeting by firing off questions. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, where are we with circuit boards? What's going on over there? We're way behind schedule. |
| 1:10.0 | Ed tries to answer Steve's question, but Avi beats him to it. |
| 1:13.0 | Well, you're one to talk, Steve. You're also late on one of your boards. What are you talking about? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, word on the street is next is later with its boards than we are with ours. So please at least remember you live in a glass house before you cast stones. |
| 1:27.0 | Before Ed can try to diffuse the situation, Avi and Steve are in each other's faces, yelling at each other from three inches away. |
| 1:34.0 | What happens at next is none of your business. It is my business if you're holding us to standards you can't even uphold yourself. You've got some nerve. |
| 1:41.0 | Ease off, Steve. We're doing the best we can. We're already working on stop. Relax and be patient. You'll get boards when you get them. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh, I'll get boards when I get them, huh? You're a master at scheduling. Just a genius. |
| 1:55.0 | Ed holds his breath as Avi falls silent. For a moment, he expects Avi to storm out of the room, but Avi does something else. |
| 2:04.0 | He moves toward the whiteboard and picks up a marker. Ed can barely believe it. Steve is infamous for being possessive over the whiteboard in meetings. |
| 2:13.0 | It's an unwritten rule that no one but Steve is allowed to take control of it. So Ed watches amazed. |
| 2:19.0 | As Avi defiantly draws a single line, a symbolic line in the sand. In response, Steve erupts. |
| 2:26.0 | You can't do that. What? I can't write on your whiteboard? Bull. |
| 2:31.0 | Ed tries to cut into the argument but it's too late. Steve storms out of the room, slamming the door on his way out. |
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