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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
, subject: Lawrence Levy's account of Pixar's business transformation under Steve Jobs
A Pixar insider’s account, framed on the show as a way to examine how Steve Jobs approached company-building.
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About the book
Levy recounts joining a financially fragile Pixar as CFO, working with Steve Jobs to reshape its strategy and economics, and helping prepare the company for its public offering and Disney partnership.
Why read it
Best if you want a Pixar CFO’s perspective on early Pixar, especially as a lens on Steve Jobs’s approach to building companies.
Key themes
- Early Pixar and company-building
- A Pixar CFO’s perspective
Evidence and original sources
This record is supported by 4 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story) — Introduces Lawrence Levy's To Pixar and Beyond as the book featured in this episode.
- Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader — David identifies Lawrence Levy as the Pixar CFO who wrote the book covered in an earlier podcast.
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