[HN Gopher] Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 inter...
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       Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview
        
       Author : sanj
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-11-21 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | disillusioned wrote:
       | Steve's comments around merging the culture of creatives and
       | technologists, and how hard it is to attract and _retain_ the
       | kind of world-changing talent that was necessary to invent a new
       | category are interesting: "the very best creative people will
       | only go to work at a few places, Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks,"...
       | "in the same sense, the very best computer scientists and
       | computer graphics people will only go work in a few places, and
       | Pixar is one of those..." "I think Pixar is the only place in the
       | world that can hire the best from both of these areas."
       | 
       | It feels like there are some obvious parallels to what we're
       | seeing in AI hiring, where you have a firm like Anthropic that
       | openly acknowledges that they're not going to try to compete on
       | comp but on culture, compared to Meta which is basically saying
       | "we'll give you more money than god if you join our efforts to
       | throw things at the wall and be part of this," and watching as
       | people churn out even though the opportunity cost on the surface
       | may be unfathomable.
       | 
       | Put another way: Steve truly understood the virtue and value of
       | that cultural component to not just attract but _retain_ that
       | kind of world-class talent, and _that's_ what he attributes
       | Pixar's success to. He goes on to talk about how getting those
       | disparate talent worlds to stick together for a decade, and how
       | valuable that is.
        
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