The Unique Relationship Between Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs at Pixar

Steve and I as we started to get to know each other before I took the job, there was an instant kind of chemistry between us. Pixar had been around for a few years but from a corporate from a financial point of view it was it was a company on life support. Steve was covering the payroll for the Pixar employees that were not covered by the Disney Green Room out of his personal checkbook every month. He had put imagine you go to a company and either the balance sheet is basically like you know negative equity negative fifty million dollars and there's really very little to show for that. There was no finance function really at all within the company It just hadn't built up those systems at