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Testing the Waters

Ed Catmull, Disney/Pixar Animation

Ed Catmull, president and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, describes to Stanford Prof. Bob Sutton how the late Steve Jobs would enter into talks with other companies about selling Pixar as a tactic to determine its market worth. Jobs co-founded Pixar and was its chief executive officer.