Pixar Founder, Ed Catmull on Creativity, Culture and Steve Jobs

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  So what would it be like, do you think, to simultaneously realize your wildest childhood fantasy, build a multi billion dollar global entertainment business, and along the way, work with Steve Jobs over a period of decades to build something absolutely stunning?

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  That's the journey that today's guest, Ed Cottml, who is the founder of Pixar, has gone through.

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  And in this really kind of fascinating, wide ranging conversation, we talk about his childhood.

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  We talk about how he actually abandoned his dream of animation and then went and pursued computer science and a PhD, and then came completely full circle to literally create the technology needed to build the first fully animated computer film and his amazing experience of building a company and working with Steve Jobs.

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  And we get into a really fascinating conversation also about how he believes that the world really misreported and misunderstands Steve in his later years, and some deep insights about who he had turned into and evolved.

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  Really, I think I love this conversation.

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  It's really fascinating.

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  One quick apology before we dive into it.

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  Ed was in his office in the Bay Area, and I was in New York City, and I had the opportunity to have this conversation, so, of course, I jumped on it.

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  And so while most of our conversations are filmed in person film, we don't film anymore, are recorded in person.

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  And we try and really keep the audio quality as good as possible.

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  The audio may be slightly less than the normal broadcast quality stuff that we do because we had to record this remotely.

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  So I just ask your forgiveness there and really just focus on the meat of the conversation.

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  It was some pretty extraordinary stuff that we dove into.

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  Such a fascinating book, such a fascinating story.

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  And what you've built, not just in Pixar and now Disney animations, is so compelling and inspiring and fascinating on a number of levels.

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  But my curiosity, when I see a journey like yours very often goes way, way, way back and says, okay, what were the nuggets?

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  What were showing up when you were a kid?

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  And, and where does this story begin?

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  So I'd love, if you're cool with it, taking a jump back in time and telling me a little bit about where you grew up and what kind of a kid you were like.

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