After a 1985 power struggle forced a departure from Apple, Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division in 1986 for $10 million and renamed it Pixar. The company endured a rocky early period with Jobs repeatedly considering a sale and personally covering monthly cash shortfalls. In November 1995 Pixar released Toy Story, featuring voices by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, and launched an IPO in the same week. CFO Lawrence Levy compared the moment to an Olympic 100-meter sprint. As an 80% owner, Jobs's stake vaulted him into billionaire status when the IPO succeeded.
To infinity and beyond!
If the world fell in love with Toy Story, Pixar would have a chance to usher in a new era of animated entertainment,
If it didn't, Pixar might be written off as another company that tried but never quite hit the mark.
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