Thursday, January 24, 2008

The Purchase...


Two years ago today, Bob Iger announced the Walt Disney Company was acquiring Pixar Animation Studios for 7.4 billion in an all-stock transaction. The purchase makes Apple Inc. CEO and Pixar's Chairman, Steve Jobs, Disney's largest Shareholder. It also puts John Lasseter in charge of Walt Disney Feature Animation as well as Pixar Animation. It also puts him in charge of creativity at Walt Disney Imagineering...

A new act begins for the Mouse...

Let's hope it's going to be a great big, beautiful tomorrow for a long, long time...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There's an interesting article on the Pixar buyout over at "Valleywag.com". Quite a sequence of events.

http://valleywag.com/346012/steve-jobs-nearly
-killed-toy-story-sequel-++-and-a-baby