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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by Razengan on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:21PM (#21468182)
> 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.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by tboughen on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:33PM (#21468312)
Bob 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
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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by Austin_Conlon on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:52PM (#21469355)
Steve Jobs on storytelling and Disney's monopoly on the business: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-stories-about-people...
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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by aprdm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:56PM (#21469991)
That was when Steve and the CEO before Bob didn't get together... Steve did sell Pixar to Disney after all.
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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by matt-attack on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:39PM (#21470432)
TFA 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).
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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by ksec on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:04AM (#21473242)
Which 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.
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