LAWRENCE LEVY is a Silicon Valley lawyer and executive hired by Steve Jobs in 1994 as CFO and member of the Office of the President of Pixar Animation Studios. He was responsible for Pixar's business strategy and IPO and guided Pixar's transformation from a money-losing graphics company into a multibillion-dollar entertainment studio. He later joined Pixar's board of directors. He then left corporate life to study Eastern philosophy and meditation and their relevance to modern life. He now writes and teaches on this topic and cofounded Juniper Foundation to pursue this work. Originally from London, England, he earned degrees from Indiana University and Harvard Law School. He lives with his wife, Hillary, in Palo Alto, California.
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 we’d work together someday.”
After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned his attention to a little-known graphics art company that he owned called Pixar.
One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and Silicon Valley executive to whom he had never spoken before, in the hope of persuading Levy to help him get Pixar on the right track.
What Levy found in Pixar was a company on the verge of failure. To Pixar and Beyond is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How Levy, working closely with Jobs and the Pixar team, produced and implemented a highly improbable roadmap that transformed the sleepy graphics art studio into one of Hollywood’s 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, first-hand account of Pixar’s stunning ascent, how it took risks, Levy’s enduring collaboration and friendship with Jobs, and how Levy came to see in Pixar deeper parallels that apply to all aspects of our lives.
《孵化皮克斯》(副标题:从艺术乌托邦到创意帝国的非凡之旅/劳伦斯·利维 / 李文远 / 浙江大学出版社 / 276页 / 平装 / 2017-4)借着《寻梦环游记》的热度,选择了这本皮克斯前CFO半回忆录性质的书,本书回顾了作者在乔布斯的邀约下,规划皮克斯上市,促成一部又一部佳作诞生...
評分 評分《孵化皮克斯》(副标题:从艺术乌托邦到创意帝国的非凡之旅/劳伦斯·利维 / 李文远 / 浙江大学出版社 / 276页 / 平装 / 2017-4)借着《寻梦环游记》的热度,选择了这本皮克斯前CFO半回忆录性质的书,本书回顾了作者在乔布斯的邀约下,规划皮克斯上市,促成一部又一部佳作诞生...
評分晚上看了2个小时 快看完了第一部分,这部分的内容是讲作者如何参与到皮克斯公司,如何做出的决策,以及如何跟上级沟通。特别是作为一个职场人士的一种非常优秀的素质,我觉得特别需要学习。作者说『不要受困与眼前的局面,像看棋局一样审视局面,落子无悔,要走的下一步棋才是...
評分看一个企业是怎么绝地求生的,恐怕连创始人和管理层也猜不到发展的结局… 皮克斯是个谜,我从没看到过一家公司能汇聚那么多人才,他们付出了巨大努力,但它涉足的业务要么失败,要么潜力有限,根本不值得大费周章。它一直在原地踏步。 把这家公司弄上市简直就是天方夜谭,投资...
我覺得從財務和商業的角度看 pixar 的過去很有意思,尤其我們和 Pixar 一樣都是內容驅動的公司,更加有共鳴。
评分本書作者為前皮剋斯CFO, 從剛開始的皮剋斯窘迫度日,到締造齣一個動畫帝國,文筆流暢,精彩紛呈。皮剋斯的經曆為喬布斯以後開啓蘋果公司的娛樂産業(比如音樂)打下良好的基礎。作者和喬布斯是近鄰,朋友,經常相互走動,然而房子仍在,斯人已去。
评分喬布斯三部麯第二部(自封的,哈哈)
评分My favorite book for 2019
评分最後的Middle Way拔高不足,故事比較好讀,雖然剛開始麵臨的睏難重重,但是齣戰略太順利,turnaround寫得太輕而易舉
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