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Learn from history's greatest innovators, founders, and investors with a mix of interviews and summaries of the best books, essays, and lectures. Each week, Daniel Scrivner decodes the ideas, strategies, and frameworks used by the best innovators, founders, and investors. Past guests include Scott Belsky (Adobe), Gokul Rajaram (DoorDash), Kevin Kelly (WIRED), Sir Ronald Cohen (IMPACT), Erling Kagge (Everest Explorer), along with the founders of Wealthfront, Public.com, Primal Kitchen, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Levels, and Eight Sleep. Visit OutlierAcademy.com for episode notes, searchable transcripts, videos, and more.
Outliers with Daniel Scrivner is a mix of Founders Podcast, How I Built This, Business Breakdowns, Invest Like The Best, Founder's Field Guide, 20VC (20 Minute VC), The Knowledge Project, What It Takes, and The Tim Ferriss Show.

Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors Outlier Academy

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Learn from history's greatest innovators, founders, and investors with a mix of interviews and summaries of the best books, essays, and lectures. Each week, Daniel Scrivner decodes the ideas, strategies, and frameworks used by the best innovators, founders, and investors. Past guests include Scott Belsky (Adobe), Gokul Rajaram (DoorDash), Kevin Kelly (WIRED), Sir Ronald Cohen (IMPACT), Erling Kagge (Everest Explorer), along with the founders of Wealthfront, Public.com, Primal Kitchen, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Levels, and Eight Sleep. Visit OutlierAcademy.com for episode notes, searchable transcripts, videos, and more.
Outliers with Daniel Scrivner is a mix of Founders Podcast, How I Built This, Business Breakdowns, Invest Like The Best, Founder's Field Guide, 20VC (20 Minute VC), The Knowledge Project, What It Takes, and The Tim Ferriss Show.

    Book: "I, Steve: Steve Jobs in his Own Words" by George Beahm

    Book: "I, Steve: Steve Jobs in his Own Words" by George Beahm

    Steve Jobs made an incredible impact on the world by creating two of today's most important companies in Apple and Pixar. Both companies created world-changing products while Steve Jobs was alive in the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and Oscar winning animated films such as Toy Story. More importantly, both companies developed the right team, vision, and culture to continue producing world-shaping products decades later — long after Steve's departure. As we learn in this book, Steve's values and ethos live on in both of these incredible companies.

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    To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

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    Who is Steve Jobs? Wisdom From The Man Who Built Apple, NeXT, and Pixar

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    • 42 min
    Trailer - Book: "I, Steve: Steve Jobs in his Own Words" by George Beahm

    Trailer - Book: "I, Steve: Steve Jobs in his Own Words" by George Beahm

    Steve Jobs made an incredible impact on the world by creating two of today's most important companies in Apple and Pixar. Both companies created world-changing products while Steve Jobs was alive in the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and Oscar winning animated films such as Toy Story. More importantly, both companies developed the right team, vision, and culture to continue producing world-shaping products decades later — long after Steve's departure. As we learn in this book, Steve's values and ethos live on in both of these incredible companies.

    Explore the episode notes.
    Search and down a transcript and find links to related books, interviews, lectures, and more: outlieracademy.com/172.

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    Explore my full summary for the book featured this week.
    To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

    For more, explore my full profile on Steve Jobs.
    Who is Steve Jobs? Wisdom From The Man Who Built Apple, NeXT, and Pixar

    Brought to you by HVMN. With Ketone-IQ, fuel your best anytime with a boost of awesome-feeling energy and clarity. Unlock the power of nature's superfuel—no fasting or keto diet required.
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    • 2 min
    Friday 5: 5 Lessons on Negotiating from Steve Jobs

    Friday 5: 5 Lessons on Negotiating from Steve Jobs

    My favorite lessons from "To Pixar and Beyond" by Lawrence Levy. Who joined Pixar in 1995, helped Steve Jobs take Pixar public, and built it into the $7.4 billion company Disney eventually acquired.
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    Chapters
    (00:00) Introduction and Background
    (03:10) Anatomy of a Deal and Poker Time
    (05:04) #1 Don't Engage in Positional Bargaining
    (06:53) #2 Understand the Difference Between Strategy and Tactics
    (10:05) #3 Analyze Your Points of Leverage
    (14:47) #4 Get Clear on What You Want and Why
    (20:32) #5 Wait to Negotiate Until You Have Maximum Leverage

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    To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

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    • 26 min
    Trailer - Friday 5: 5 Lessons on Negotiating from Steve Jobs

    Trailer - Friday 5: 5 Lessons on Negotiating from Steve Jobs

    My favorite lessons from "To Pixar and Beyond" by Lawrence Levy. Who joined Pixar in 1995, helped Steve Jobs take Pixar public, and built it into the $7.4 billion company Disney eventually acquired.
    Get Friday 5 delivered to your inbox every Friday at 8 AM Pacific

    Explore the episode notes.
    Search and down a transcript and find links to related books, interviews, lectures, and more: outlieracademy.com/184.

    Chapters
    (00:00) Introduction and Background
    (03:10) Anatomy of a Deal and Poker Time
    (05:04) #1 Don't Engage in Positional Bargaining
    (06:53) #2 Understand the Difference Between Strategy and Tactics
    (10:05) #3 Analyze Your Points of Leverage
    (14:47) #4 Get Clear on What You Want and Why
    (20:32) #5 Wait to Negotiate Until You Have Maximum Leverage

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    Explore my full summary for the book featured this week.
    Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

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    • 3 min
    Book: "To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History"

    Book: "To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History"

    After he was dismissed from Apple in the early 1990s, Steve Jobs turned his attention to a little-known graphics company he owned called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive to whom he had never spoken before. He hoped to persuade Levy to help him pull Pixar back from the brink of failure. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: how Jobs and Levy concocted and pulled off a highly improbable plan that transformed Pixar into the Hollywood powerhouse it is today.

    Explore the episode notes.
    Search and down a transcript and find links to related books, interviews, lectures, and more: outlieracademy.com/182.

    Chapters
    (00:00) The Bleak State of Pixar's Business in 1994
    (08:06) Steve Jobs' Investment in Pixar
    (10:24) The Initial Contract with Disney
    (26:27) The Four Pillar Business Strategy
    (32:53) Renegotiating the Contract with Disney
    (38:10) Don't Engage in Positional Bargaining
    (40:36) Understand the Difference Between Strategy and Tactics
    (43:11) Analyze Where You Stand in Relation to the Other Party
    (45:40) Pixar's Negotiating Power
    (48:05) Assessing Strength and Negotiating Terms
    (49:27) Knowing What You Want
    (51:20) Creative Control and Release Windows
    (52:18) Profit Share and Revenue Calculation
    (53:42) Building the Pixar Brand
    (55:09) Waiting for Maximum Leverage

    Watch and listen.
    Watch this episode on YouTube
    Find this episode in your favorite podcast app
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    Explore my full summary for the book featured this week.
    To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

    For more, explore my full profile on Steve Jobs.
    Who is Steve Jobs? Wisdom From The Man Who Built Apple, NeXT, and Pixar

    Brought to you by HVMN. With Ketone-IQ, fuel your best anytime with a boost of awesome-feeling energy and clarity. Unlock the power of nature's superfuel—no fasting or keto diet required.
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    • 1 hr 2 min
    Trailer - Book: "To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History"

    Trailer - Book: "To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History"

    After he was dismissed from Apple in the early 1990s, Steve Jobs turned his attention to a little-known graphics company he owned called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained lawyer and executive to whom he had never spoken before. He hoped to persuade Levy to help him pull Pixar back from the brink of failure. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: how Jobs and Levy concocted and pulled off a highly improbable plan that transformed Pixar into the Hollywood powerhouse it is today.

    Explore the episode notes.
    Search and down a transcript and find links to related books, interviews, lectures, and more: outlieracademy.com/183.

    Chapters
    (00:00) The Bleak State of Pixar's Business in 1994
    (08:06) Steve Jobs' Investment in Pixar
    (10:24) The Initial Contract with Disney
    (26:27) The Four Pillar Business Strategy
    (32:53) Renegotiating the Contract with Disney
    (38:10) Don't Engage in Positional Bargaining
    (40:36) Understand the Difference Between Strategy and Tactics
    (43:11) Analyze Where You Stand in Relation to the Other Party
    (45:40) Pixar's Negotiating Power
    (48:05) Assessing Strength and Negotiating Terms
    (49:27) Knowing What You Want
    (51:20) Creative Control and Release Windows
    (52:18) Profit Share and Revenue Calculation
    (53:42) Building the Pixar Brand
    (55:09) Waiting for Maximum Leverage

    Watch and listen.
    Watch this episode on YouTube
    Find this episode in your favorite podcast app
    Get new episodes delivered via email

    Explore my full summary for the book featured this week.
    To Pixar And Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

    For more, explore my full profile on Steve Jobs.
    Who is Steve Jobs? Wisdom From The Man Who Built Apple, NeXT, and Pixar

    Brought to you by HVMN. With Ketone-IQ, fuel your best anytime with a boost of awesome-feeling energy and clarity. Unlock the power of nature's superfuel—no fasting or keto diet required.
    Advertise with Outliers and reach our global community
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 2 min

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