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Chapter 903 Jobs' Failure

Jobs, in China, is probably a well-known name.

Many people know that Jobs is the founder of Apple and that Jobs is the leading developer of iPhones, but no one knows that Jobs was actually forced to leave the Apple he created in 1985.

This is a typical example of the founder being forced to leave by other investors and boards of directors. This is also the reason why Boss Jia will never let Daqian Group go public, but he doesn't want a guy who is occupying the nest later.

Jobs was a very decisive person. After being forced to leave Apple, he actually sold all the Apple stocks in his hand, and then set up a new company. At the same time, he also acquired the animation department under Lucas' industrial optical model studio, which was later Pixar.

After the establishment of Pixar Animation Studio, they naturally had ambition to produce a cartoon that has been famous for its history. So they started designing and conceiving in 1991, and toy story released in 1995 was born.

Jobs had great expectations for Toy Story, because Jobs later founded the company with average performance and could not realize Jobs' desire to surpass Apple. After the production of Toy Story, it became more and more extraordinary, so Jobs was very eager to fight a beautiful turnaround with Toy Story.

But unfortunately, this turnaround battle was defeated.

Toy Story in history won 20 million box offices on its first weekend of release, and then rose against the trend, finally gaining 220 million North American box offices, winning 400 million box offices worldwide, becoming the global box office champion in North America that year, and also becoming an insurmountable monument in animated films. It is also the first 3D animated film in history.

Later, with the outstanding achievements of Toy Story, in 1996, due to various operating performances, Apple's board of directors cursed and invited Jobs back to serve as CEO, leading Apple's subsequent product and business development, and finally a series of products such as Ipod, iPad, iPhone, etc.

So, Going to Mobilize is a movie that changed the world.

But now the fate of this movie is different. First of all, the title of the world's first 3D animated movie is no longer the title of Toy Story, and this title falls on "Pokemon: The Counterattack of Super Dreams".

And what's even more serious is that "Pokemon" is better than "Toy Story" in terms of both the plot and 3D animation effects, forming a considerable gap.

Finally, and the most terrible thing, "Toy Story" premiered on November 26, three days later than "Pokemon", which is the fatal mistake for the entire movie.

When everyone has watched the better "Pokemon", when you watch the movie "Toy Story", you will instinctively feel that "Toy Story" is not as good as "Pokemon", which has caused "Toy Story", which was originally quite well-known, to face a collapse in reputation after its release, which was something that Jobs never expected.

In fact, Jobs already knew in advance that "Pokemon" is also a 3D animated movie, and this movie happened to be released in front of "Toy Story".

But Jobs did not change the release date of the animation. One of them is that "Toy Story" was set for the release date a year ago. According to the American Film Association, unless there is an irresistible situation, it is not allowed to be upgraded.

In other words, you can postpone the time of the movie broadcast, but you cannot broadcast the movie in advance.

Of course, for some experienced Hollywood filmmakers, as long as the money is right, it is not impossible to broadcast it in advance.

But the problem is that Jobs felt that there was no need to be in advance, because Jobs firmly believed that his Pixar studio, Toy Story, created by five years, was definitely more than twice as good as Pokemon, which had only been produced for two years.

"Pokemon" is just a movie adapted from a game, otherwise there will be a lot of fan base, but such movies are often just a formality, and the producers are just for publicity and will not really devote themselves to film production.

What's more, this is a movie produced by a Chinese animation studio. Does anyone have a computer in China?

Later generations beautified Jobs was quite awesome. Who knew that Jobs was actually a bit anti-China guy. He showed disdain and contempt for China more than once in public. He even believed that India would be 10 times better than China, and India would become the future Asian leader.

It was not until Apple achieved excellent results in the Chinese market and the Chinese market became Apple's second largest market in the global market that Jobs obediently shut up his mouth and no longer expressed his disgust towards China, but there was never a single good thing about China in his mouth.

So Jobs despised China at heart, but this cannot be blamed on this. This is a common problem among the Americans in this era. In fact, the Americans look down on countries around the world, including their close relatives and Europeans.

Okay, let's get back to the point. According to Jobs' idea, the promotion of "Pokemon" was so loud, but the quality was finally broken. Then the excellent quality of "Toy Story" released later will form a sharp contrast, and then the market topic was created. Pixar is using this marketing wave, so "Toy Story" can use its power to achieve its great box office on the corpse of "Pokemon".

It is nothing wrong for Jobs to think so, but unfortunately the script is the opposite. "Toy Story" has become the one to be leveraged. "Pokemon"'s box office continued to maintain high growth in the later period, which is also closely related to the poorness of "Toy Story".

Anyway, in two weeks, the box office of Toy Story is less than $30 million, and it is basically impossible to break the $100 million mark. Whether or not it can make a profit is a question.

So, the angry Jobs cursed at all the staff of Pixar Studio at the meeting.

Yes, Jobs is not a gentle guy. Even in the biography of Jobs written by later generations, it clearly states that Jobs is a guy with a very irritable personality and temper. Once any staff member fails to complete the task, or there are some flaws in the task, he will be scolded.

Except for the days when Jobs was not at work due to illness and went to other places to attend events, there was no day when the entire Apple company could not hear Jobs cursing.

Moreover, this guy scolds people very badly. He basically scolds others specifically for their weaknesses and pains. There are countless Apple employees who choose to resign because they can't stand Jobs' attitude.

By the way, the boss of the EA company was criticized by Jobs in Apple and then turned around and left Pingguo to create EA.

However, with Jobs's deity as a god, basically no one mentioned Jobs' bad character. Even if it was mentioned, it became that Jobs was concerned about product quality and was meticulous about product. Even if there were a little flaws and details, he pursued the ultimate goal. Even if he had a dispute with his employees, he would never relax his pursuit of quality.

Look, after saying this, will the curse become taller?

Of course, Jobs was Jobs after all. He did not act like some of the villains in it. Because of the failure of his movie, he did not kill Boss Jia and Daqian.

On the contrary, at the end of the meeting, Jobs wrote down the four words "Dynasty Animation" heavily on the whiteboard with a black fountain pen.
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