To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

Name: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Price: 4.99 USD
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Rating: 4.5 (1520 reviews)
Author: Lawrence Levy

by Lawrence Levy

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4.5 stars from 1,520 reviews. Top 85% of Biography Memoir books we track.

272 pages~4.5 hr readPublished by Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublished 2016-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You're fascinated by Steve Jobs and want a portrait of him that goes beyond the usual hagiography. You love business stories where the stakes feel genuinely uncertain and the outcome wasn't inevitable. You appreciate well-told narratives about how creative companies actually function behind closed doors.

Maybe not for you if...

You want a deep dive into animation techniques or the creative process behind specific Pixar films. You're looking for a conventional business self-help book with frameworks and bullet-pointed lessons. You find Steve Jobs exhausting as a subject and have no interest in his personal story.

About this book

In the early 1990s, after his dismissal from Apple, Steve Jobs focused on Pixar, a struggling graphics company he owned. Jobs contacted Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive they had never met, asking him to help save the company from failure. This book recounts what followed: how Jobs and Levy developed and executed an unlikely plan that transformed Pixar into a major Hollywood studio. Levy provides a firsthand account of Pixar's rise from its difficult early days, his experience working closely with Jobs, and the lessons from Pixar's story that apply to professional and personal life. The book won the Axiom Business Book Award and was named a Fortune Favorite Book of the Year and Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business & Leadership.

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