This would have been around the time he negotiated a gigantic deal with Disney for Toy Story at Pixar, after selling them Pixar's hardware and CAPS software for

This would have been around the time he negotiated a gigantic deal with Disney for Toy Story at Pixar, after selling them Pixar's hardware and CAPS software for digital compositing — used to great effect in the 'Disney Renaissance' era (it was first deployed in this opening shot for The Rescuers Down Under (1990): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjkdOAjtJ1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjkdOAjtJ1k)