Pixar | Acquired Podcast

IN THE VERY early days of Pixar, John, Andrew, Pete, Lee, and Joe made a promise to one another. No matter what happened, they would always tell each other the truth. They did this because they recognized how important and rare candid feedback is and how, without it, our films would suffer. Then and now, the term we use to describe this kind of con

Among those changes, they altered the approach to storyboards and computer graphics standards. For example, they created what Bird called superelaborate storyboards that emulated camera movement to show which parts of the images of scenes needed to be perfect (e.g., have fine-grained detail) and which ones didn’t. This allowed the animators to focu

If an acquisition doesn’t create shareholder value by producing a high return on invested capital, if it doesn’t help us thrill our customers, or differentiate our offering, or fill a strategic gap, then it will just make us bigger, not better.