num_pages: 272
description: The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success?Hi Lawrence? the caller asked. This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought wed work together someday. After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple he bought a little-known graphics company called Pixar. One day out of the blue Jobs called Lawrence Levy a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive to whom he had never spoken before to persuade Levy to help him get Pixar off the ground. What Levy found was a company on the verge of failure. To Pixar and Beyond is the story of what happened next: how working closely with Jobs Levy produced and implemented a highly improbable plan that transformed Pixar into one of Hollywoods greatest success stories. Set in the worlds of Silicon Valley and Hollywood the book takes readers inside Pixar Disney law firms and investment banks. It provides an up-close firsthand account of Pixars ascent how it made creative choices Levys enduring collaboration and friendship with Jobs and how Levy came to see in Pixar deeper lessons that can apply to many aspects of our lives.
language: English
title: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt