Earlier that year Jobs had been hoping to find a buyer for Pixar that would let him merely recoup the $50 million he had put in. By the end of the day the shares he had retained—80% of the company—were worth more than twenty times that, an astonishing $1.2 billion. That was about five times what he’d made when Apple went public in 1980. But Jobs told John Markoff of the New York Times that the money did not mean much to him. “There’s no yacht in my future,” he said. “I’ve never done this for the money.”

　　 那年早些時候，喬布斯還曾經(jīng)希望把皮克斯賣掉，收回他投資的5000萬美元。而股票公開發(fā)行第一天結(jié)束時，他持有的公司80%的股票價值就已經(jīng)漲到原來的20多倍，達到驚人的12億美元。那相當于1980年蘋果上市時他獲得收益的5倍。但是喬布斯吿訴《紐約時報》的約翰·馬爾科夫（JohnMarkoff），錢對他來說意義不大。“我的未來不需要游艇，”他說，“我做這個從來都不是為了錢?！?/span>　

　　The successful IPO meant that Pixar would no longer have to be dependent on Disney to finance its movies. That was just the leverage Jobs wanted. “Because we could now fund half the cost of our movies, I could demand half the profits,” he recalled. “But more important, I wanted co-branding. These were to be Pixar as well as Disney movies.”

　　Jobs flew down to have lunch with Eisner, who was stunned at his audacity. They had a three-picture deal, and Pixar had made only one. Each side had its own nuclear weapons. After an acrimonious split with Eisner, Katzenberg had left Disney and become a cofounder, with Steven Spielberg and David

Geffen, of DreamWorks SKG. If Eisner didn’t agree to a new deal with Pixar, Jobs s

aid, then Pixar would go to another studio, such as Katzenberg’s, once the three-picture deal was done. In Eisner’s hand was the threat that Disney could, if that happened, make its own sequel

s to Toy Story, using Woody and Buzz and all of the characters that Lasseter had created. “That would have been like molesting our children,” Jobs later recalled. “John started crying when he considered that possibility.”

　　 喬布斯飛去跟艾斯納共進午餐，艾斯納被他的大膽驚呆了。他們之前簽的是三部電影的合同，皮克斯剛剛制作了一部。雙方都有自己的撖手锏。當時，卡曾伯格在跟艾斯納決裂后已經(jīng)離開了迪士尼，斯蒂芬·斯皮爾伯格（StevenSpielberg）和戴維·格芬（DavidGeffen）—起創(chuàng)立了夢工廠（DreamWorksSKG）。喬布斯說，如果艾斯納不

同意跟皮克斯重簽合同，一旦原定的三部影片完成，皮克斯就會去跟另一家電影公司合作，比如卡曾伯格的新公司。而艾斯納手里的砝碼則是，一旦那樣，迪士尼就會自己制作《玩具總動員》的續(xù)集，使用胡迪、巴斯以及所有拉塞特創(chuàng)造的角色?！澳蔷拖袷且C我們的孩子，”喬布斯后來回憶說，“約翰一想到那種可能性就哭了?！?/span>