Steve Jobs poured close to fifty million dollars of his own money into Pixar, a computer company whose machines did not sell, and at one point he tried to sell it. This episode follows the whole story: George Lucas's divorce and the deal with General Motors that fell apart three days before signing, the ten million dollar purchase, the Pixar Image Computer, Luxo Junior and Tin Toy, the layoffs, the Disney contract, the day Disney shut Toy Story down, the calls to Hallmark, Paul Allen and Larry Ellison, the stock market debut a week after Toy Story opened, the billion dollar day, and the sale to Disney for seven point four billion dollars.
Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
