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Founder Bet #02

– Steve Jobs’ Billion-Dollar “Distraction.”

Apple didn’t make Steve Jobs
a billionaire.

Pixar did.

In 1986,
Jobs bought the computer-animation group
that became Pixar from George Lucas.

For years,
it looked like a strange bet.

Expensive hardware.
Uncertain customers.
No clear business model.

Then Toy Story changed everything.

It became the first fully
computer-animated feature film
and turned Pixar
into a serious studio.

One week after Toy Story opened,
Pixar went public.

Its stock closed at nearly
double its initial offering price,
giving Pixar a valuation
of roughly $1.5 billion.

Suddenly,
the “distraction”
became one of Jobs’
most valuable assets.

The lesson?

Sometimes the asset
that changes your life
is the one everyone else
thinks is a distraction.

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