• basskitten@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He technically didn’t. It was originally owned by George Lucas! But it was mostly just the cgi arm of his special effects. Jobs bought it off Lucas and turned it into the Pixar movie studio we think of today. (Jobs is credited as executive producer on the original Toy Story)

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        1 year ago

        he sold it in 2006

        …damn, Steve Jobs bankrolled a large portion of my childhood and I never even realized.