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Steve Jobs Archive Posts Unseen Pixar Interview for Toy Story’s 30th Anniversary

The video captures Jobs explaining Pixar’s incentive model that gave creators an ownership stake.

Overview

  • The newly released interview is available to watch on the Steve Jobs Archive website and in embedded coverage.
  • Jobs reflects on Pixar’s early success, describing stock options and outcome-based incentives for artists and engineers.
  • He discusses lessons learned from Disney about focus and discipline and the challenge of leading an inverted hierarchy of top talent.
  • Coverage notes conflicting dates for the footage, described as from 1999 in one instance and dated November 22, 1996 elsewhere.
  • The Archive, launched in 2022 by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, and Tim Cook, shared the video as Toy Story turns 30.