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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
“The Lucasfilm guys are wondering what's going on, and it turns out this is right in the middle of when Steve is getting fired from Apple and ousted from his own company.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- evaluation
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- 10 Aug 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
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…Yeah. -just vanishes for a while. The Lucasfilm guys are wondering what's going on, and it turns out this is right in the middle of when Steve is getting fired from Apple and ousted from his own company. So then Steve gets back in touch after the dust settles, and at first what he actually wants is the Pixar team and technology to create a rival consumer computer company to Apple. He wants to get back at Apple using Pixar as the seeds of the company. He wants Pixar to be NeXT.…
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