The Long, Extraordinary Career of Steve Jobs

Animated
During the years he was away from Apple, Jobs bought and developed a computer-animation lab called Pixar. The unit's first feature film, Toy Story, released in 1995, grossed $360 million and instantly established the studio as a major Hollywood player. Pixar has enjoyed a virtually unbroken string of successes since then, with films such as Finding Nemo, Cars, WALL-E and Up. In 2006 Disney negotiated a $7.4 billion all-stock deal to acquire the unit, a deal that made Jobs the studio's largest stockholder.

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