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Ed Catmull, Pixar: Keep Your Crises Small
Stanford Graduate School of Business · Jul 28, 2009 · 54m 11s
What this video covers
Ed Catmull of Pixar speaks at Stanford's 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference on running a creative company. He argues for surfacing small problems early and building good teams, with stories like the Toy Story 2 crunch.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
Repeatedly called one of the most useful talks on building organizations and managing creative teams.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“fantastic business talk by Ed Catmull (pixar co-founder) at Stanford”
“Here he is, giving a really good talk at Stanford Business School”
“I highly recommend it, many gems from a brilliant developer turned brilliant manager.”