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It still kills me a little inside when I think of the day I helped Ed Catmull load a Pixar box onto a bus to the airport knowing I was going to turn them down o
by icantthinkofone 13y ago
It still kills me a little inside when I think of the day I helped Ed Catmull load a Pixar box onto a bus to the airport knowing I was going to turn them down on their job offer to go to work at Silicon Graphics instead.
Pixar just didn't feel stable enough and I had a wife and newborn. Sure enough, I was a hardware guy, and Pixar dumped hardware two weeks after the date I would have started and I would have been out of a job.
That's too bad. I would have been thrilled to work there.
- pestaa 13y agoDo you see any opportunity for Pixar to get back into hardware?
- melling 13y agoYou should probably go back and study why Silicon Graphics, Sun, and the other workstation vendors no longer exist.
- zeckalpha 13y agoApple is now the only successful Unix workstation vendor.
- icantthinkofone 13y agoYeah. Too bad that IBM company went under.
- icantthinkofone 13y agoSGI no longer exists? That would be big news to their many employees.
- Keyframe 13y agoWhy did it seem unstable? I didn't get that impression from Apodaca's book: Advanced Renderman. Seemed like a really cool place with a bit of shuffling between Lucas and Jobs later. I always wondered why Pat Hanrahan wasn't more prominent in Pixar... then I looked him up. I haven't realized he co-founded Tableau.