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About Me. In 1994, out of the blue, I received a phone call from Steve Jobs to see if I had any interest in running Pixar’s business. Over the next twelve years, I served as Pixar’s Chief Financial Officer, a member of its Office of the President and later as a member of its board of directors.
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Nov 1, 2016 · But when Lawrence Levy was recruited by Pixar chief Steve Jobs in 1994, the animation studio was bleeding cash. Unique structural challenges seemed to block any easy avenue to taking the company public, and a skeptical staff eyed their enigmatic boss with mistrust and resentment.
Oct 5, 2016 · One day in late 1994, Steve Jobs called Lawrence Levy, finance chief of a company called Electronics for Imaging, to inquire whether he’d be interested in taking the CFO post at Pixar Animation Studios, which Jobs owned.
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 year...
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Feb 18, 2015 · On Thursday Feb. 19, Lawrence Levy ’83, co-founder of Juniper Foundation, will speak on his career path from intellectual property lawyer to start-up executive to CFO of Pixar to meditation practitioner, teacher, and promoter.
Oct 19, 2016 · Central to that story is Lawrence Levy, the man who Jobs reached out to, unknown, in November of 1994 and hired as CFO. His mission? To take the scrappy company public.
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Oct 12, 2023 · Lawrence Levy, Former Pixar CFO, in conversation with Irwin Miller, Principal, Gensler discussing his upcoming book, "To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journe...
