Steve Jobs was probably a well-known name in Hua Xia.
Many people knew that Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and that he was the lead developer of the iPhone. However, no one knew that Steve Jobs was actually forced to leave Apple in 1985.
This was a fairly typical example of a founder being forced to leave by other investors and the board of directors. This was also the reason why Boss Jia never let the Daqian Group go public. He did not want someone to take over the company.
Steve Jobs was quite a decisive person. After he was forced to leave Apple, he sold all his Apple shares and set up a new company. At the same time, he also bought the animation department under Lucas' Industrial Light Model Studio, which later became Pixar.
After the establishment of Pixar Animation Studio, they were naturally ambitious to make an animation that would go down in history. Therefore, they began to design and conceive in 1991 and released Toy Story in 1995.
Steve Jobs had great expectations for Toy Story. Because the company that Steve Jobs later founded did not perform well and could not fulfill Steve Jobs' wish to catch up with Apple. After Toy Story was completed, it became more and more extraordinary. Therefore, Steve Jobs was very much looking forward to a beautiful turnaround with Toy Story.
However, it was a pity that he had lost this battle.
In history, Toy Story earned 20 million at the box office on its first weekend. After that, it rose against the trend and finally earned 220 million at the box office in North America and 400 million worldwide. It became the global box office champion in North America that year. It also became an insurmountable milestone for animated films. It was also the first 3D animated film in history.
Later, with the excellent results of Toy Story, in 1996, due to various business performance becoming worse, the board of directors of Apple shamelessly invited Steve Jobs back as CEO to lead the company's next product and business development. In the end, there were a series of products such as the iPod, the iPad, the iPhone, and so on.
Therefore, Toy Story was a movie that changed the world.
But now the fate of this movie was different. First of all, the title of the world's first 3D animated film was no longer Toy Story. This title fell to Pokemon: The Counterattack of Transcendent.
What was even worse was that Pokemon was better than Toy Story in terms of movie plot and 3D animation effects. There was a significant gap between the two.
Lastly, and most importantly, the premiere of Toy Story was on November 26th, which was three days later than Pokemon. This was the most fatal mistake for the entire movie.
Everyone had already seen the better Pokemon. When they saw Toy Story again, they would instinctively feel that Toy Story was not as good as Pokemon. This led to the collapse of Toy Story's reputation after its release. This was something that Jobs had never expected.
Jobs had known in advance that Pokemon would also be a 3D animated film, and that it would be released before Toy Story.
But Jobs didn't change the release date, in part because Toy Story had been set a year earlier. According to the United States Motion Picture Association of America, movies are not allowed to be moved up unless there are irresistible circumstances.
That was to say, you could delay the release of a movie, but you couldn't release it in advance.
Of course, for some experienced Hollywood filmmakers, as long as the money was right, it was not impossible to release it in advance.
But the problem was that Jobs didn't feel the need to release it in advance. Jobs firmly believed that the quality of Toy Story, which was created by his Pixar studio in five years, was more than twice as good as Pokemon, which was only made in two years.
Pokemon was just a movie adapted from a game. Otherwise, it would have a large fan base. However, such movies were often just for show. The producers only did it for publicity, and they didn't really invest in the production of the movie.
What's more, it was a movie made by Hua Xia's animation studio. Did anyone in Hua Xia have a computer?
Later generations beautified Jobs to be quite awesome, but they did not know that Jobs was actually a guy who was somewhat anti-China. He had shown disdain and contempt for Huaxia in public more than once. He even thought that India was 10 times better than Huaxia and that India would become the future leader of Asia or something.
It wasn't until Apple achieved excellent results in the Hua Xia market, which became Apple's second-largest market in the world, that Jobs shut his mouth and stopped expressing his antipathy to Hua Xia. But he never said anything good about Hua Xia.
So Jobs despised Hua Xia. But Jobs couldn't be blamed. This was a common problem in the United States of this era. In fact, the United States looked down on the rest of the world, including their close relatives in Europe.
Well, back to the point. According to Jobs's idea, if Pokemon's publicity was so loud, but the quality of the movie was ruined in the end, then the excellent Toy Story, which was released later, would create a sharp contrast. Pixar would then use this as a marketing tool, and Toy Story would be able to achieve its own great box office success on the corpse of Pokemon.
Jobs was right to think so. Unfortunately, the script was reversed, and Toy Story became the one being used. Pokemon's continued high box office growth in the later period also had a lot to do with Toy Story's poor performance.
Anyway, after two weeks, Toy Story's box office was less than 30 million dollars. It was basically impossible to break the 100 million dollar mark. It was a question of whether it could break even.
So, an angry Jobs yelled at all the people at Pixar during the meeting.
Yes, Jobs was not a soft guy. Even later biographies of Jobs clearly state that Jobs was a man with a very short temper, and that he would lash out at any worker who failed to complete a task, or who failed to complete a task in the slightest.
Except for a few days when Jobs was not at work due to illness, there was not a day when Apple did not hear the sound of Jobs's abuse.
What's more, this guy was particularly nasty. He basically specialized in poking at other people's weak points. Countless Apple employees chose to leave because they couldn't stand Jobs's attitude.
Yes, the boss of EA was the one who left Ping Guo to found EA after being yelled at by Jobs at Apple.
But after Jobs became a god, almost no one mentioned Jobs's bad character. Even if it was mentioned, it was said that Jobs cared about product quality and was meticulous about it. He would pursue even the slightest flaw and detail to the extreme. Even if he had disputes with his employees, he would never let up on the pursuit of quality.
See, now that he put it that way, didn't his abuse become classy?
Of course, Jobs was Jobs. He was not like some villains in novels who did not kill Boss Jia and the Daqian because of the failure of their movies.
Instead, at the end of the meeting, Jobs wrote the words "Dynasty Animation" on the whiteboard with a black pen.
"From now on, all of you will study Dynasty Animation and their products. We can fail the first time, but we won't fail the second time. This is a tough opponent, but we can definitely beat this guy! "
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