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> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating
by Razengan 7y ago
> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating and humbling as an engineer, at times, but its definitely enlightening.
Weren't Bob Iger and Steve Jobs close or at least friends?
That kind of echoes Jobs' sentiment about "technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
Tech to these guys is a means to a goal.
- tboughen 7y agoBob Iger and Steve Jobs were very close friends. I heard an interview of Bob Iger on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon where he spoke at length about his friendship with Steve Jobs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b0c9#play https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b0c9#play
- Austin_Conlon 7y agoSteve Jobs on storytelling and Disney's monopoly on the business: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-stories-about-people-randomly-or-non-randomly-meeting-Steve-Jobs/answer/Tomas-Higbey https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-stories-about-people...
- aprdm 7y agoThat was when Steve and the CEO before Bob didn't get together... Steve did sell Pixar to Disney after all.
- matt-attack 7y agoTFA has a touching blurb about just how close they were. The 2nd person Jobs confided in when he was diagnosed with cancer was Iger (after his wife).
- ksec 7y agoWhich makes me think back about Steve Jobs's reference on his tens ( and now hundreds ) of billion in cash pile, waiting for one big bet. I wonder if this bet would be to acquire majority stake in Disney if Steve is still alive.